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Fujian People's Government

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The People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China[1] (Chinese: 中華共和國人民革命政府; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Gònghéguó Rénmín
Gémìng Zhèngfǔ), also known as the Fujian People's Government (Chinese: 福建人民革命政府; pinyin: Fújiàn Rénmín Zhèngfǔ), was a short-lived
anti-Kuomintang government in the Republic of China's Fujian Province. The rebellion that led to its formation and its collapse are known as the
Fujian Incident (閩變 Mǐnbiàn or 福建事變 Fújiàn Shìbiàn) or Fujian Rebellion.

In November 1933, some leaders of the National Revolutionary Army's 19th Route Army including Cai
Tingkai, Chen Mingshu, and Jiang Guangnai, who had gained fame for their role in the January 28 Incident,
were deployed to southern China to suppress communist rebellion, but instead they negotiated peace with
the rebels. In alliance with other Kuomintang forces under Li Jishen, the 19th Route leaders broke with
Chiang Kai-shek and took control of Fujian where they were stationed and, on November 22 1933,
proclaimed a new government. The chairman of the government was Li Jishen, Eugene Chen (陳友仁) was
foreign minister, Jiang Guangnai was finance minister, and Cai Tingkai was military head and governor of
Fujian Province. A flag of red over blue with a yellow star was used and the Chinese era name of the new
state was "Republic of China" (中華共和國) with its founding being year one.

The rebels were motivated by, among other things, personal disagreements with Chiang Kai-shek, Flag of the Fujian People's Government's
opposition to perceived appeasement of Japan, and their assignment to the then relatively poor Fujian. The Republic of China. The flag is similar to
that of the NLF (Vietcong) of South
goals of the new government included the overthrow of the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, various Vietnam.
social and political reforms, and a stronger resistance to foreign interference in China. The rebellion brought
a temporary halt to the central government's Fifth Encirclement Campaign in southeast China. However,
implied or promised aid to the rebellion from the Communist Party's Jiangxi Soviet failed to materialize and the effort began to collapse.

The Kuomintang responded to the rebellion first with air attacks and, in January 1934, with a ground offensive that quickly led to the defeat to the
formerly prestigious 19th Route Army. On 13 January 1934, the government was defeated and its leaders fled or defected to Chiang Kai-shek's forces.

Notes
1. ^ Although the government bore the same English name as Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang regime in Nanjing, i.e. "Republic of China," the Chinese forms names
were different: 中華共和國 (Zhōnghuá Gònghéguó) for the Fujian People's Government vs. 中華民國 (Zhōnghuá Mínguó) in Nanjing.

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References and further reading

n William F. Dorrill. The Fukien Rebellion and the CCP: A Case of Maoist Revisionism The China Quarterly, No. 37. (Jan. - Mar., 1969), pp. 31-
53.
n Frederick S. Litten. "The CCP and the Fujian Rebellion." Republican China, vol. XIV, number 1, November 1988, pp. 57-74. Accessed 20
February 2007.

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