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  Huangshan Travel Net -- Not Only Yellow Mountain
Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi Province, lies in the lower reaches of the Hanjiang River and the Fuhe River, and faces the Boyang Lake.
The Nanchang Uprising on October 1, 1927 won itself the fame of the Heroes’ City.
It is dry in autumn and winter and rainy in spring and summer; the average temperature is 17.5 oC in the spring, 28.2 oC in summer, 20.9 oC in autumn and 6.3 oC in winter.
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  Nanchang Uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nanchang Uprising (Chinese: 南昌起义; pinyin: Nánchāng Qǐyì) (August 1, 1927) was the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War.
Communist forces in Nanchang rebelled under the leadership of He Long and Zhou Enlai attempting to seize control of the city after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance.
Communist forces occupied Nanchang successfully and escaped from the siege of Kuomintang forces at August 5, withdrawing to the Jinggang Mountains of western Jiangxi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nanchang_Uprising   (360 words)

  
 Nanchang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nanchang (Chinese: 南昌; pinyin: Nánchāng) is the capital of Jiangxi Province in southeastern China.
Nanchang is known for the Tengwang Pavilion, a towering pavilion dating to 653 and Nanchang's People's Square, the second largest public square in China, after Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Nanchang has a population of 1,934,445 people and a metropolitan area of 1,990,184 people [1].
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nanchang   (281 words)

  
 Nanchang - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nanchang (Chinese: 南昌; pinyin: Nánchāng) is the capital of Jiangxi Province in southeastern China.
Nanchang is known for the Tengwang Pavilion, a towering pavilion dating to 653 and Nanchang's People's Square, the second largest public square in China.
Nanchang has a population of approximately 1.57 million people and a metropolitan area of about 4.07 million people.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nanchang   (360 words)

  
 nanchang - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Nanchang () is the capital of Jiangxi Province in southeastern China.
The Ford Motor Company has a plant in Nanchang, assembling the Ford Transit van as part of the Jiangling Motor joint venture.
In 589 AD (Sui Dynasty), it was renamed Hongzhou (洪州), and eventually Nanchang.
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 Nanchang, China
Nanchang lies in the north of the province of Jiangxi, on the River Ganjiang.
In the 2nd C BC this settlement had acquired the dimensions of a town, was given the name Nanchang (''flourishing town of the south'') and started to become a trading center for agricultural produce.
Today Nanchang is the political, economic, cultural and scientific center of the province of Jiangxi.
www.planetware.com /china/nanchang-chn-jx-n.htm   (161 words)

  
 Jiangxi Travel / Nanchang / Lushan Mountain/Jiangxi History Museum / Jingdezhen
Nanchang, the capital city, is the leading transportation hub of the entire province and a major transit center for travelers entering and leaving the province.
Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, is better known as a heroic city because of the 1927 Communist-led August 1 Nanchang Uprising, which marked the birth of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Prince of Teng's Tower, built in 659 in Nanchang, is one of three major towers south of the Yangtze River whose national fame stems from the Tang poet Wang Bo's "Introducing Prince of Teng's Tower".
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A new Nanchang airport and station are under construction and in the very near future a new page will be opened for the access to this metropolis.
This building used to be a local hotel, but as they used it as the headquarters of the revolutiary army at the time of uprising in arms in 1927, it has been kept as a memorial hall to the revolution with a lot of materials of historical and cultural importance on display.
This modern building with accomodations was constructed jointly by Takamatsu and Nanchang to commemorate the the fifth anniversary of the friendship affiliation of the two cities and was opened on May 11, 1996.
www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp /ENGLISH/inter/B3.html   (385 words)

  
 Nanchang China : Nanchang Travel Information, Map, Hotel Guideand Picture
Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, is located along the Ganjiang River.
In 1937, it became famous when on August 1, Zhou Enlai led an uprising against Chiang Kai-Shek nationalist army at Nanchang before retreating to the nearby Jinggang Mountains to form one of the first armed forces of the Chinese Red Army.
Today, the anniversary of the uprising is celebrated each year in China as the day the People's Liberation Army was founded.
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 Welcome to East China JiaoTong University   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi province, has been a prosperous cultural city south of the Yangtze River for 2,190 years.
Nanchang, Lushan, Mountaina, and Jingdezhen, a town famed for porcelain production, form a "gold triangle" of tourism in Jiangxi province for their fantastic natural and man-made landscape.
Nanchang has 14 institutions of higher learning, 97 scientific research institutions and over 20,000 technical personnel.
www2.ecjtu.jx.cn /enweb2002/IntroductiontoNanChang.htm   (783 words)

  
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The Nanchang Uprising In May 1927, at the CCP's Fifth National Congress, Zhou became a member of t he five-man politburo, the party's leading organ.
Known as the Nanchang Uprising, the communist campaign was ultimately a fail ure, although it marked the first time the communist army had acted without the KMT leadership.
As such, the uprising is considered the birth of the Chi nese Red Army.
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 Site of Headquarters of the Bayi Uprising   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To prepare for the uprising secretly, they rented all the rooms in the Grand Hostel in Jiangxi Province for the Front Line Committee and the headquarters of the uprising.
It was here that Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Ye Ting, He Long and Liu Bocheng discussed the plan of the uprising, and drafted the Declaration of Bayi Revolution, the General Propaganda Outline for the Bayi Revolution and the General Propaganda Outline for the Land Reform.
The Nanchang City Uprising was the start of the Revolutionary War carried through by the worker-farmer armed force, which was founded by the Communist Party.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_travel/2003-09/24/content_33854.htm   (329 words)

  
 Jiangxi Province
Nanchang New- and High-tech Industrial Development Zone(南昌高新技術產業開發區), covers an area of 19.6 square kilometres and was established in October 1992.
Nanchang is a major heavy industry base of iron and steel, machinery, electronics, metallurgy, automobiles, textiles and petrochemicals.
Xinyu is situated between Pingxiang and Nanchang, though somewhat closer to the former.
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 Site Memorial of August 1 Nanchang Uprising   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Site Memorial of the August 1 Nanchang Uprising is a Chinese revolutionary memorial in memory of the Nanchang Uprising led by the Chinese Communist Party on August 1, 1927.
Situated in the provincial city of Nanchang in Jiangxi Province, the memorial was founded in 1956 and opened to the public in 1959.
The Exhibition of Comrade Zhu De in the Nanchang Uprising in the Former Residence of Zhu De introduces the contribution of Zhu De in the Nanchang Uprising.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_museum/2003-09/24/content_30609.htm   (288 words)

  
 NANCHANG, Nanchang Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
Built on trade, today Nanchang has the rail link with Shanghai and Changsha to thank for its character; unfortunately, this mostly reflects its steel and chemical industries and an overbearing, incomplete reconstruction since the 1950s.
An initially grey and noisy place afflicted by the usual stifling summer temperatures, first impressions are slightly moderated by the handful of older monuments gradually being resurrected, and the sheer enthusiasm with which locals have grasped free-market principles, crowding every alley with stalls.
Provincial capital or not, Nanchang saw little action until the twentieth century, when the city was occupied by the Guomindang army in December 1926.
www.infohub.com /destinations/asia/China/Nanchang/54332.htm   (304 words)

  
 Battle of Nanchang - China-related Topics BA-BD - China-Related Topics
The Battle of Nanchang (????????????) (March 1939 -May 1939) was the first major conflict between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army after the Battle of Wuhan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Nanchang was a railway center, the major support line between the 3rd and 5th Military Region, and the airbase threatenning Japanese naval shipes in Yangtze River.
On March 27, Nanchang was fallen after surrounded and sieged by Japanese forces.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Battle_of_Nanchang   (492 words)

  
 Gloria Plaza Hotel Nanchang - China Hotel Reservations in Jiangxi with restaurants, bars, lounge and cafe, promotion, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As the capital of Jiangxi Province, Nanchang remains till today a city to remember in modern Chinese history or the communists-led uprising of 1 August 1927.
Today, Nanchang city boasts a population of 37 million with an economy supported by slowly thriving industries specialising in food processing, paper manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, metalwork and others.
Heavy industries are also being set-up in Nanchang, as evident with the set-up of Ford Motors due largely to the capital's favourable investment conditions.
www.gloriainns.com /gloria_en/plaza/nanchang_place.asp   (473 words)

  
 Chapter 11, Section a6- Nationalist Movements   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the Nanchang Uprising (August), the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the war, Communist forces under Zhu De (Chu Teh) were defeated, withdrawing to the Ching-kang Mountains of western Kiangsi.
A new policy was instituted calling on the CCP to foment armed insurrections in both urban and rural areas in preparation for an expected rising tide of revolution.
Unsuccessful attempts were made by Communists to take cities such as Nanchang, Changsha, Shantou, and Guangzhou, and an armed rural insurrection, known as the Autumn Harvest Uprising, was staged by peasants in Hunan Province.
www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/c11sa06.html   (797 words)

  
 ipedia.com: People's Liberation Army Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The PLA was established on August 1, 1927, as the military arm of the Communist Party of China.
The People's Liberation Army's insignia consists of a round device with a design of five stars and the Chinese characters "ba-yi" (August 1, the anniversary of the 1927 Nanchang Uprising), surrounded by wheat ears and cog wheels.
The People's Liberation Army was founded on August 1, 1927 during the Nanchang uprising when troops of the Kuomintang rebelled under the leadership of Zhu De and Zhou Enlai after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance.
www.ipedia.com /people_s_liberation_army.html   (2836 words)

  
 China Travel Service - Destination Guide - Nanchang
Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province and the center of the provincial economy, politics, science and technology, and culture and education, is an old city Jiangnan (jiangnan means south of the Changjinang River.) with a long history, known as a heroic city because of the August 1 Nanchang Uprising.
Governing five districts (East Lake, West Lake, Qingyunpu, Wanli and Jiaoqu) and four counties (Nanchang, Xinjian, Jinxian, and Anyi) with a total area of 7,400 square kilometers.
In the fifth year of the reign of the Han Emperor, Gaozu (202 BC), Yuzhang Jun (Jun was an ancient administrative division equal to a present-day prefecture) was set up, which governed a county named Nanchang.
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 Travel in China   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, has a population of 940,000.
As early as in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.--A.D.24), it was already known for its prosperity in the south.
As the Nanchang Uprising took place in the city on August 1, 1927, it was honoured with the former establishment of the General Headquarters of the Nanchang Uprising, the former residences of Premier Zhou Enlai and Marshal Zhu De, and the headquarters of General Ye Ting and Marshal He Long.
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 phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - From Jing Gang Shan to Yan An
On August 1, 1927, the CCP staged an uprising in Nanchang («n©÷) of Jiangxi province (¦¿¦è¬Ù).
Zhu De took part in the Nanchang Uprising in August the previous year.
After the Nanchang Uprising collapsed Zhu De led the remnants of the army and fled to the Hakka regions of Meixian (±ö¿¤) and Dapu (¤j®H) in the south.
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 Chinese Civil War
Kuomintang resumed the campaign again warlords and captured Beijing in June 1928.
Communist Party activists retreated to the countryside where they fomented a peasant rebellion (Nanchang Uprising on August 1, 1927) and established control over several areas in southern China.
Attempts by the Nationalist armies to suppress the rebellion were unsuccessful but extremely damaging to the Communist forces.
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 Nanchang Hotels,Hotels in Nanchang:China Hotels.net
Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, is best known, in modern history, for the communist-led uprising of August 1, 1927.
From luxury to cheap budget hotels in Nanchang, discount Nanchang hotels and hostels in China Hotels.
Gloria Plaza Hotel Nanchang is strategically located in the city centre, only 20 minutes from Changbei Airport, 12 minutes from the railway station and a stone's throw away from major commercial complexes.
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 RED TERROR vs WHITE TERROR -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Kang Sheng [i.e., Zhao Rong], a CCP from Shanghai University, led the student movement in Shanghai; and Zhou Enlai was dispatched to Shanghai in late 1926 for leading the workers' uprising.
Just prior to the uprising, American mayor Fei-xin-dun was fetched by the French for a meeting with Du Yuesheng, which was for sake of approving the transportation of 5000 guns to the ganster forces through the "international settlement" zone.
Communist fervour in the uprising could be seen in one scene recalled by Xu Xiangqian: Peng Pai's wife, by the name of Xu, at one time put down her sibling and demanded that she joined her husband in the siege of Huilai city.
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 The Communist International and the Chinese Communist Party
The aim of the uprising was to march south to Shantou, occupy the port there and then proceed to Guangzhou.
As I still held the view that cities were of primary importance and had not drawn any lessons from the Shang hai-Uprisings and the Nanchang Uprising, I did not see the need to go up into the mountains and engage in rural struggles.
This uprising was the opening salvo in the Chinese people's armed opposition to the Kuomintang reactionaries and ushered in a new era in which the Communist Party exercised independent leadership of revolutionary armed struggle.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /marxists/reference/archive/zhou-enlai/1960/07/14.htm   (10495 words)

  
 Memorial Pagoda to Nanchang Uprising, Nanchang
Nanchang - Memorial Pagoda to Nanchang Uprising; Bayi Nanchang Qiyi Jinianta
The 45m/148ft high Memorial Pagoda to the Nanchang Uprising (Bayi Nanchang Qiyi Jinianta)on Bayi Guangchang Square was erected in 1977 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1927 uprising.
The marble and granite clad building bears inscriptions recalling the events of that time.
www.planetware.com /nanchang/memorial-pagoda-to-nanchang-uprising-chn-jx-nmp.htm   (87 words)

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