“Nanjing decade”
1927 CE to 1937 CE
The Nanjing decade, the decade from 1927 (or 1928) to 1937 in the history of the Republic of China, begins when Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek takes the city from Zhili clique warlord Sun Chuanfang halfway through the Northern Expedition in 1927.
He declares it to be the national capital despite the other Nationalists already having made Wuhan the capital.
The Wuhan faction gives in and the expedition continues until the rival Beiyang government in Beijing is defeated in 1928.
The location is of symbolic and strategic importance.
It is here that the republic had been established and where Sun Yat-sen's provisional government had sat.
Sun's body is brought over and placed in a grand mausoleum to cement Chiang's budding personality cult.
Chiang had been born in the neighboring province and the general area provides strong popular support for him.
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