Zhang Tailei

{{Short description|Chinese revolutionary (1898–1927)}}

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| caption = Zhang Tailei

| birth_date = June 1898

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1927|12|12|1898|6}}

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| nationality = Chinese

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| alma_mater = Peiyang University

| known_for = Guangzhou Uprising

| party = Chinese Communist Party

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Zhang Tailei ({{zh|s=张太雷|t=張太雷|p=Zhāng Tàiléi}}; June 1898 – 12 December 1927) was the leader of the Guangzhou Uprising, during which he was killed.

Zhang was sent to the Russian Far East in 1921 to make a report to the Comintern for the Chinese Communist Party. Zhang then studied in Moscow for a few years. However, when he went back to China, he became hostile to the others who had returned to China in 1924.[http://www.zhongguo.org/docs/zhengchaolin/zheng1.htm From the Moscow Group] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513001329/http://www.zhongguo.org/docs/zhengchaolin/zheng1.htm |date=13 May 2008 }}

Zhang emphasized the role of an army that is created out of bandits, the poorest peasants, paupers, and rural lumpenproletarian elements.{{fact|date=December 2023}}