Mnementh on 30 August 2012
Is this description wrong by ten years? 1936 were already fightings with Japan, the full war started 1937. Communists in Shanghai were already eradicated, the communists were at the north-west at the time, tried to avoid complete destruction by Chiang Kai-shek. Ten years before would match the general description more, this was the time of communist crackdown by the Kuomintang:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre_of_1927
