Editing Chen Duxiu (section)

====Subsequent efforts to spread communism====
Soon after the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in 1921, Chen accepted an invitation from [[Chen Jiongming]] to serve on the education board in [[Guangzhou]] in the aftermath of the June 16 Incident, but this position dissolved when Guangzhou was recaptured by the Kuomintang. At the direction of the Comintern, Chen and the Chinese Communists formed an alliance with [[Sun Yat-sen]] and the [[Kuomintang]] (KMT or Nationalist Party) in 1922. Although Chen was not convinced of the utility of collaborating with the Kuomintang, he reluctantly carried out the Comintern's orders to do so. Pursuing collaboration with the Kuomintang, he was elected into that party's Central Committee in January 1924.{{sfn|Chow|2009}}

In 1927, after the [[Shanghai massacre]], he and other high-ranking Communists, including [[Mao Zedong]] and [[Mikhail Borodin]], collaborated closely with [[Wang Jingwei]]'s Nationalist government in [[Wuhan]], convincing Wang's regime to adopt various proto-Communist policies. The Wuhan government's subsequent land reform policies were considered provocative enough to influence various KMT-aligned generals to attack Wang's regime, suppressing it.{{sfn|Spence|1999|pp=338–339}} Chen was forced to resign as General Secretary in 1927, due to his public dissatisfaction with the Comintern order to disarm during the [[April 12 Incident]], which had led to the deaths of thousands of Communists – now known as the [[Shanghai massacre of 1927]], and because of his disagreement with the Comintern's new focus on peasant rebellions.{{Citation needed|reason=A citation for the disagreement on the focus with peasant rebellions would be appreciated.|date=March 2024}}