Institution
Whampoa Military Academy
The Whampoa Military Academy was an officer school founded in 1924 by Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang on Changzhou Island near Guangzhou, with Soviet funding and advisers and Chiang Kai-shek as commandant. Zhou Enlai headed its political department. Its graduates led the National Revolutionary Army in the Northern Expedition, and its alumni became commanders on both sides of the Chinese Civil War.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Whampoa Military Academy. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/whampoa-military-academy
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