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Military Council and commander of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary
Army. In 1927, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang
Central Executive Committee, a member of the presidium of its Central Political
Council and a standing member of the National Government in Wuhan. pp. 135, 185
157 Zhu Peide (1889-1937) served as a member of the Central Executive Com-
mittee and of the Central Political Council of the Kuomintang, and commander of
the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army. p.135
158 Cheng Qian (1881-1968) was commander of the Sixth Army of the National
Revolutionary Army. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he served
as Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. p. 135
159 The Peasant Movement Institute for the Peasant Association of Guangdong
Province was founded by Peng Pai in 1924 (see Note 25 above). The first five classes
were run by Peng Pai, Ruan Xiaoxian and others. The sixth class, which started in
May 1926, was run by the Peasant Department of the Kuomintang Central Executive
Committee; thereafter the institute was known as the Central Peasant Movement
Institute and Mao Zedong was appointed its director. Among the teachers were such
Communists as Xiao Chunü, Peng Pai, Yun Daiying, Zhou Enlai, Ruan Xiaoxian and
Zhao Zixuan. The 327 trainees in the sixth class came from 20 provinces and prefec-
tures. They graduated in September 1926. In March 1927, Mao Zedong set up another
peasant movement institute in Wuchang and trained a class of students there. p.136
160 To protest against the imperialist-engineered massacre of May 30th in Shang-
hai (see Note 3 above), a large-scale demonstration was held in Guangzhou on June
23, 1925 by some 100,000 people and cadets from the Whampoa Military Academy.
While the demonstrators were passing along Shaji Street, they were machine-gunned
by the British and French troops in the foreign concession in Shamian. Fifty-two were
killed on the spot and more than one hundred and seventy were seriously wounded.
This incident became known as the Shaji Massacre. p.136
161 Xu Chongzhi (1886-1961) was then commander-in-chief of the Guangdong
Army. p.136
162 Peng Hanyuan, a brother of Peng Pai, joined the revolutionary ranks under
the latter ’s influence. He was elected county magistrate of Haifeng after the First
Eastern Campaign in 1925. He was arrested in March 1928 and died a martyr in
Guangzhou. p.136
163 Chen Yannian (1898-1927) joined the Communist Party in 1922. In 1924 he
served as secretary of the Guangdong-Guangxi Party Committee. In April 1927 he
was elected a member of the Central Committee and an alternate member of its
Political Bureau at the Party’s Fifth National Congress. After the congress he served
as secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the CPC. In June 1927 he was
arrested and in July he died a martyr in Longhua, Shanghai. p.137
164 Mikhail Markovich Borodin (1884-1951) was the Soviet Government emissary
to the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government and political advisor to the Kuomin-
tang during the first period of Kuomintang-Communist co-operation. He came to
China in October 1923 and returned to the Soviet Union after Wang Jingwei’s coup
d’état of July 15, 1927. pp.137,187
165 Zhang Guotao (1897-1979) attended the First National Congress of the
Communist Party of China in 1921 and was elected a member of the Central Com-
mittee at its 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th national congresses. At the First Plenary Session
of the Sixth National Congress, he was elected a member of the Political Bureau.
In 1931 he went to work in the Fourth Front Army in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet