Chiang Kai-shek made a wider sweep. On the night of April 12–13, assisted by agents of the Green Society and police of the French Concession, he carried out a bloody purge of the left, disarming and hunting down all who could be found and killing more than 300. The revolution was turned from Red to right. Chiang’s coup was both turning point and point of no return. He was now on the way to unity but he had fixed the terms of an underlying disunity that would become his nemesis.
