[The China Project] The Xi’an Incident: When Chiang Kai-shek was imprisoned by his own men[The China Project] The Xi’an Incident: When Chiang Kai-shek was imprisoned by his own men
[The China Project] The Xi’an Incident: When Chiang Kai-shek was imprisoned by his own men
On December 11, 1936, divisions in the Nationalist camp boiled over. Their brief mutiny against Chiang Kai-shek had momentous consequences for Chinese history, forcing Chiang to ally with the Communists against the Japanese.