The North-eastern Jiangxi Soviet (赣东北苏维埃, Gandongbei Suweiai) was a constituent part of the Chinese Soviet Republic (1931/Nov--1935). Any military threat it posed to the Nationalist Party-controlled Chinese State

Republic of China (1912–1949)

In 1911, after over two thousand years of imperial rule, a republic was established in China and the monarchy overthrown by a group of revolutionaries. The Qing Dynasty, having just experienced a century of instability, suffered from both internal rebellion and foreign imperialism...

 (1927--1949) had been roundly neutered by an early 1931 campaign

Encirclement Campaign against Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet

The Encirclement Campaign against the Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet was a campaign launched by the Chinese Nationalist Government intended to destroy the communist Chinese Soviet Republic and its local military forces. It was met by the Communists' Counter-Encirclement Campaign at Northeastern...

 (while it was still known as the North-eastern Jiangxi Revolutionary Base Area / 赣东北革命根据地 / Gandongbei Geming Genjudi), and thus the area was never going to make a formidable component soviet of the CSR.

Geography

The base areal administrative centre or Soviet capital was at Geyuan

Geyuan

Geyuan is a town in Hengfeng County, Shangrao municipality, JX.-Imperial:The meaning of the town's name is the headstream of kudzu ....

 town (葛源镇) in northern Hengfeng County

Hengfeng County

Hengfeng County is a small county under the administration of Shangrao city, Jiangxi...

, now in Shangrao

Shangrao

Shangrao is a medium-sized prefecture-level city located in the northeast of China's Jiangxi province. According to the 2010 Census, Shangrao has a population of 6,579,714 inhabitants....

. The town was taken rather unceremoniously by the Chinese army in 1934.

The counties under sustained CPC

Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

-affiliated control all lie in the present-day municipality of Shangrao, JX

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

; intermittently affected counties now lie in Quzhou

Quzhou

Quzhou is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Zhejiang province, China. Sitting on the upper course of the Qiantang River, it borders Hangzhou to the north, Jinhua to the east, Lishui to the southeast, and the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui to the south the south, southwest and...

, ZJ

Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

, and Nanping

Nanping

Nanping is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde City to the east, Sanming City to the south, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to the north and west respectively...

, FJ

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

.

NEJX Soviet in the Second Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States...

 

In 1938 the Nationalist Party/Government conducted an eradication campaign into the area which put an end to whatever small harassments the remnant Soviet troops has been able to stage against the war effort. Now little better than a rural fugitive, Soviet leader Yang Wenhan (杨文翰) lived Jianghu (江湖, the classic Chinese outlaw life) until his capture in 1943. Yang was held by the Nationalists for seven months before his execution.