On the 12th of april in 1927, Nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-Shek carried out the Shanghai Massacre, attacking and disarming workers' militias by force, resulting in more than 300 people being killed or wounded.
This incident marked the beginning of a campaign of violent suppression of Chinese communists by conservative factions in the Kuomintang, killing 300,000 people over the course of three years.
The Shanghai Massacre began before dawn, when nationalist troops began to attack district offices controlled by the union workers. Under an emergency decree, Chiang then ordered the 26th Army to disarm the workers' militias.
The union workers organized a mass meeting denouncing Chiang Kai-shek the next day, and thousands of workers and students went to the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the 26th Army to protest. Soldiers opened fire, killing 100 and wounding many more.
This incident marked the beginning of a prolonged purge of communists from the Wuhan province, and the ensuing violence killed over 300,000 people in less than three years. Stalin offered his support, sending a telegram to the Chinese communists on June 1st, urging them to organize militarily against the state.
The events of April 1927 prompted the Comintern in Moscow to break ties with the Guomindang. It also triggered in-fighting between communists and left-wing nationalists in Wuhan that contributed to the collapse of Wang Jingwei’s government there. By late summer 1927, right-wing nationalists were ascendant in the Guomindang and Chiang Kai-Shek had emerged as the dominant republican leader of China.
Thousands of communists were forced underground in the cities or dispersed to rural areas. Some attempted to fight back. In response to the Shanghai massacre, on August 1st, 1927, the Communist Party launched an uprising in Nanchang against the Nationalist Wuhan government, which had previously been sympathetic to the Communists. The conflict meant that the Wuhan government and Chiang were once again aligned to crush the CCP.
This period is also acknowledged to have seen the emergence of the CCP’s “Red Army,” comprised of armed peasants and former nationalist soldiers. Despite KMT efforts to suppress the CCP forces, the communists successfully established control over many areas in southern China after attacks on cities such as Changsha, Shantou, and Guangzhou. In September, the leader of the Wuhan government, Wang Jingwei, was forced into exile.
By this point, three capitals were in effect across China: internationally-recognized Beijing, the KMT regime in Nanjing, and CCP-held Wuhan. This marked the start of a decade-long struggle known as the Ten-Year Civil War.
A large group in southern China led by Mao Zedong established a base in the remote Jinggang Mountains. A Kuomintang counterinsurgency campaign forced Mao and his group to relocate once again, and they moved into the border region between Jiangxi and Fujian provinces.
In order to rebuild the party's strength, the 6th National Congress ordered these rural cadres to organize soviet governments. Mao's group founded the Jiangxi Soviet, which became the largest and best administered soviet thanks to the number of Communist cadres from across the country that took refuge there. Although the Central Committee of the Communist Party was still underground in Shanghai during this period, the center of political gravity had begun to shift to Mao in Jiangxi.
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Someone recommends me a manga -> I read it -> The sfx has subtitles -> I wax nostalgic about US Monthly Shonen Jump
OKAY MOTHERFUCKERS, I have pretty much never met a fellow subscriber but who remembers the english monthly version of Shonen Jump? It ran from ~2002-March 2012 in print and 2012-2016 in digital, and had a unique selection of manga compared to Weekly Shōneno Jāmpu, or any of the Japanese monthly versions, probably for the purpose of tie-ins with anime adaptations. (It also lacked the pirate guy branding)
I think most people who grew up with 4kids anime in the west went right to Funimation dubs, me I went and subscribed to this. I still blame it for my latent weeaboo tendencies. It was at least a cool & neat magazine given the target demographic; it had stuff like fanart, Nigonho Lessons, previews of Japanese video games, interviews with mangaka, oh man it was the shit. One of the fascinating things about it was that in like 2004, 2005, you could watch the very PG-rated 4kids One Piece dub on TV, (as I did) and then go read the identically-branded manga version of same and go "woah... that's a lotta fuckin' blood man!!" the dissonance was fascinating, and also Jump would do weird things like run portions of Dragon Ball Z or Dr Slump. I was always big on the titles they'd serialise for just a few issues, like Toriko or Bakuman. The "Shonen Jump Advanced" (i.e. age 16+) titles they serialised were fascinating and hilarious, like they ran Rosario + Vampire Season II when it began, and they legit had to edit out all of the panty shots, which, lmao.
I have always been a pretty big fan of Viz's localisations of their various manga, like it's a laugh reading old fanscans of Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue and reading the scanlator getting fucking furious at Viz putting those big "<<<READ THIS WAY<<<" indicators on their pages. My brother in christ, for its first five or six years Jump was printed with the cover on both sides. It was confusing, I desperately needed those "You're reading the wrong way!" warnings, as well as the "Japan 101" style t/n's that explained shit like what oden noodles was.
The aspect of their translations that always stuck out to me though, was the sound effects. Nowadays literally everyone just puts "SFX: BREAST NOISES" under the relevant panel, but I guess Viz didn't think 13 year old white boys would tolerate seeing kanji in a comic, because they redrew literally every onomatopeia and sound effect in every manga they published from like 2002 to 2016, which is fucking wild to me. The amount of hard work and effort that went into it must have been staggering, but getting those big huge block-letter "THOK" graphics next to Luffy decking someone was the fucking goat. Reads smooth like butter, and it looks gorgeous. Dramatic, even.
I think US Monthly Shonen Jump is sort of an artifact of when business interests didn't think Japanese anime or manga would sell stateside, though. As much as it was pretty faithful, high-quality & not afraid of its origins, unlike say DiC's Sailor Moon comic issues, it does feel like a really careful, precision effort to sell westoid audiences on manga. Obviously this worked perfectly because it's been dead for like twelve years and my autistic ass is still prattling on about it. I still have all of my issues from 2009-2012, if they brought this out again I'd probably subscribe again just for shits, it was wonderful.
yeah! checking out copies of the american shonen jump releases from the library was actually how i got into manga and anime proper. they had the yugioh manga running in there and then i started reading like, naruto and one piece and yu yu hakusho because they were in the same magazine. i never subscribed but my local library would get one copy of the new magazine every month and i would be first in line to check it out. a lot of the time i would just go to the library and read it in there without ever checking it out even
Yooooooo that is so legit!! That's even better than subscribing, absolute banger :)
Re panty shots, i have been punched in the brain by the muse of anime, and now i want to make a serious office drama about people in an unfulfilling job that pays the bills, but the joke is that you never see anyone's face and any time people are talking to each other you're looking at their underpants. Like just no one wears pants, and when they have conversations you're looking at people's groins as they talk to each other. This is never ever commented on within the text.
Okay i'm going to try to get like another hour of sleep now.
I'd watch an episode or two...
I think you could do all kinds of funny things with it. Like have the guy who always wears the same undies, but only the audience knows because the not-wearing pants is a story conceit and not diegetic. Have someone who never wears the same underoos twice so you always have to try to guess if it's them or not. Hint that two people are in a relationship when one of them shows up wearing the other's undies. Have someone who is notoriously bad at dating show up to work in lacey black undies one day. Have someone who usually wears white underpants show up with pink undies one day having had a laundry mishap. There's a lot of silly jokes you could do with it. And, of course, the one person who is always commando so they're just walking around with a censor bar for the entire series. Maybe even have someone show up wearing pants one day, and it turns out that it's someone in disguise and do a whole sherlock holmes thing where the audience is trying to guess who it is because you can't see their undies.
Okay stop right there, beautiful buckeroo, for a question: do you usually share undies with your partner? Even if you're both the same size and like to wear the same type of underwear, I feel like it's a lot harder and weirder to share underwear. Do people actually do this?
However otherwise this does sound like a magical, cursed idea.
Certainly not everyone does, and I've never had a partner who was even remotely the same size as me. Most people wouldn't, but it could be a funny thing, especially with a couple who were more or less the same shape.
I would assume any couple sharing underwear was both unnaturally well-matched and kinda kinky.