"The Nanchang Uprising (simplified Chinese: \u5357\u660C\u8D77\u4E49; traditional Chinese: \u5357\u660C\u8D77\u7FA9; pinyin: N\u00E1nch\u0101ng Q\u01D0y\u00EC, 1 August 1927) was the first major Kuomintang\u2013Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War, begun by the Communists to counter the anti-communist purges by the Nationalist Party of China.The Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalist Party) established a \"Revolutionary Committee\" at Nanchang to plan the spark that was expected to ignite a widespread peasant uprising."@en .