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193612–25 December 1936 · Lintong, Xi'an

Xi'an Incident

Huaqing Palace at the foot of Mount Li near Xi'an, where Chiang Kai-shek was seized in 1936
Photo: Gisling. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two Nationalist generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, detained their leader Chiang Kai-shek at the Huaqing hot springs outside Xi'an to force him to stop fighting the Communists and resist Japan. Chiang was released after two weeks, and a second Nationalist–Communist united front followed in 1937. The truce helped the Communist Party survive and grow.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Huaqing PalaceHot springs, Chiang's office and the hillside where he hid.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Zhang Xueliang Mansion, Xi'anResidence of the general who planned the detention.Map ↗

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