Wuhan Coup

The Wuhan coup was a political change on July 15, 1927 carried out by Wang Jingwei against Chiang Kai-shek, and his rival in the Kuomintang (KMT) based in Shanghai. The KMT's Wang faction, which supported cooperation with the Communist Party of China, had established a capital in Wuhan in early 1927. The Wuhan National Government was opposed by Chiang's National Government, established in Nanking, a division known as the Ninghan Separation. Following the April 12 incident of that year, Wang's government broke with the Communists and sought alliance with Chiang. Trade unions, peasants' associations and other revolutionary organizations were banned and brought to a close a massacre of communists and other revolutionaries.

In 1960, Zhou Enlai described the coup as the beginning of the second stage of the Communist Party's history, marking the break with Chen Duxiu's "capitulationism."

The Wuhan events were a forerunner of the Nanchang Rebellion of August 1927. and

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