The Communist Party Center remained underground in the dangerous city of Shanghai during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Further reading/watching: Patricia Stranahan, Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927-1937 China: A Century of Revolution documentary Josephine Fowler, Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933 Chang Kuo-t’ao [Zhang Guotao], The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party (2 volumes) Wang Fan-hsi [Wang Fanxi], Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary Christina Gilmartin, Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s Frederic Wakeman, Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 Some names from this episode: Deng Yingchao, Communist Party activist and wife of Zhou Enlai Zhang Guotao, Leading Communist Lin Zhuhan, Leading Communist Li Weihan, Head of CCP Organizational Department Gong Yinbing, CCP treasurer He Shuheng, Communist cadre Li Lisan, Leading Communist Liu Shaoqi, Leading Communist He Baozhen, Communist cadre and wife of Liu Shaoqi Wang Yizhi, Communist cadre and widow of Zhang Tailei Zhang Tailei, Leader of Guangzhou Commune Chen Yannian, Chair of Jiangsu Provincial Committee for a very short time until his arrest Chen Duxiu, Co-founder of Communist Party Zhu De, Communist military leader He Zhihua, Zhe De’s embittered lover from Germany Qu Qiubai, Top Communist leader from mid-1927 to mid-1928 Wang Fanxi, Member of Organization bureau Xu Baihao, Communist union leader Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=DACDMMMEASJVJ)