The Red Spear Society staged a major uprising in 1928–1929 against the rule of Liu Zhennian, the Nationalist government-aligned warlord ruler of eastern Shandong province in Republican China. Motivate
The Red Spear Society was named for the weapon most commonly used by its members: A simple spear with a red tassel, similar to the one seen here.
Quasi-state
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A quasi-state is a political entity that does not represent a fully autonomous sovereign state, with its own institutions.
Red Spears' uprising in Shandong (1928–1929)
…and the brutality of Liu's private army, the Red Spear peasant insurgents captured large areas on the Shandong Peninsula and were able to set up a proto-state in Dengzhou county. Despite this, the whole insurgency was eventually crushed by Liu in late 1929. The Red Spear Society was a movement and network of…
Tuareg rebels in the short-lived quasi-state of Azawad
Territory controlled by the Anti-Fascist Council of Yugoslavia, which established its own quasi-state in 1942