KMT armies continued to suppress the rebellions.
The Guangzhou commune was able to control Guangzhou for three days and a 'soviet' was established.
They combined the force with remnants of peasant rebels, and established control over several areas in southern China. Thus the struggle for power in China began between the KMT and the CPC.ĭuring the 1920s, Communist Party of China activists retreated underground or to the countryside where they fomented a military revolt, beginning the Nanchang Uprising on August 1, 1927. For political expediency, the Soviet leadership initiated a dual policy of support for both Sun and the newly established Communist Party of China. Sun Yat-sen's efforts to obtain aid from the Western democracies were ignored, however, and in 1921 he turned to the Soviet Union. To defeat these warlords, who had seized control of much of Northern China, the anti-monarchist and national unificationist Kuomintang Party and the president of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen, sought the help of foreign powers. China was left under the control of several major and lesser warlords in the Warlord era.
The Qing Dynasty, the last of the ruling Chinese dynasties, collapsed in 1911.
