China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, traces its founding to a 1927 rebellion designed largely as a last-ditch effort to boost morale after a purge by the Kuomintang had killed at least 90% of the members of the Chinese Communist Party.
Read the article by James Carter: https://thechinaproject.com/2021/08/04/the-nanchang-uprising-and-the-birth-of-the-pla/
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