Hands Off China was a mass

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campaign which existed in the

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from 1925 to 1927. The campaign started in response to the killing of nine Chinese labour demonstrators in the

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by the Shanghai Municipal Police, which sparked the

May Thirtieth Movement The May Thirtieth Movement () was a major labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era. It began when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Set ...

in China.

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