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Increased Disunity: The Politics and Finance of Guangdong Separatism, 1926–1936

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

John Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald
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University of Melbourne
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There are two lemons in the larder of Modern China's history. Stalin's, dating from April 1927, is certainly the better known:

Chiang Kaishek is submitting to discipline. The Kuomintang is a bloc, a sort of revolutionary parliament, with the Right, the Left and the Communists. Why make a coup d'etat? Why drive away the Right when we have the majority and the Right listens to us?… Also, they have connections with the rich merchants and can raise money from them. So they have to be utilized to the end, squeezed out like a lemon, and then flung away.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 745 - 775
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Conference on the Nanking Decade, University of Hong Kong. I wish to thank conference organizers and participants for their assistance and suggestions, in particular Professor Li Ngok and Dr Alfred Lin.

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