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Xi'an incident

Subject: History

(December 1936) The kidnapping of the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek while visiting disaffected Manchurian troops at Xi'an. Chiang was captured by conspirators headed by Zhang ...

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Encyclopedia of Human Rights

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Social sciences
Length:
13,083 words

...the country. There, however, protest movements mirroring Beijing's were put down relatively peacefully, particularly in Shanghai. Even in Xian and Changsha, local authorities who had used violent methods to suppress protest in late April responded relatively cautiously in June. Citizens were terrified, but they were also outraged: the abiding image of the onslaught remains the picture of the lone man defying an approaching tank that then maneuvered around him, a picture that reflects not only the courage of unarmed Chinese citizens but also the...

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