On March 1, 1927, Chen Zanjian, the chairman of the Federation of Ganzhou Trade Unions was killed. [Photo/Memorial Hall at the Site of the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party of China]

On March 31, 1927, the secretary of the Chongqing Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, Yang Angong, was killed. This photo shows his body after it had been prepared by an embalmer. [Photo/people.com.cn]

From March 1927 to the first half of 1928, 310,000 communists and revolutionaries were killed. The picture shows the heads of revolutionaries left hanging in the streets. [Photo/Exhibition Road to Rejuvenation at the National Museum of China]