The Hailufeng Soviet ( zh, 海陆丰苏维埃, ''i.e.'' Hai

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Lufeng Soviet) was the first Chinese Soviet territory, established in November 1927, by

Peng Pai Peng Pai ( zh, c=彭湃, p=Péng Pài, w=P'êng2 P'ai4; October 22, 1896 – August 30, 1929) was a pioneer of the Chinese agrarian movement and a leading revolutionary in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during its early years.In the Preface, ...

with Ye Ting's remnant troops from the Nanchang Uprising. After the

Little Long March The Little Long March was a , two-month withdrawal by left-wing members of the Kuomintang and the National Revolutionary Army up the Gan River (Jiangxi), Gan River and down to the coast, subsequent to the successful mutiny and insurrection at Nanch ...

and the near-rout at the Battle of Shantou these troops were much diminished and were directed by the

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to lie low in the deep countryside and to avoid any further battles.

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The territory lay in mountainous

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China ...

speaking parts of Haifeng, Lufeng, and Luhe counties of what is now

Shanwei Shanwei ( zh, c= ), or Swabue, or also commonly known as Hailufeng ( zh, c= , portmanteau of Haifeng and Lufeng) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and ...

municipality on the coast of

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

Province.Schwartz, Benjamin, ''Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao'', Harper & Row (New York: 1951), p. 102-103

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