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...flat plain that moves in an endless wave of villages and fields, past small ponies pulling fertilizer carts, we come to Yuang village, headquarters of the 196th Division of the People's Liberation Army. Formed in 1937 from partisan contingents, the 196th fought against the Japanese and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, then in Korea against U.S. forces...
...round-the-world trip in 1928. He intended to visit China for only six weeks, but the country captivated him, and he was outraged by the suffering he saw. In the course of covering China for the New York Sun and other publications, he gradually grew disillusioned with Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Snow decided that the mysterious rebels cooped up in the northwest by Chiang's troops were the wave of China's future...
...full-fledged member of the Politburo. During the harsh Long March, Chou established his lasting relationship with Mao. When Mao swept into Peking in 1949, Chou was ready with plans for China's new Communist government. On more than one occasion during the early struggles with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, Chou personally ordered the execution...
...instance, is married to his fourth wife, Chiang Ching...
Nationalist troops commanded by Chiang Kai-shek and his German advisers. On October 16, 100,000 Red soldiers and camp followers slipped southwestward through the cordon. For a year, harried continuously by Chiang's armies, hunger, disease and local warlords, they walked west and north, 6,000 miles in all, to reach the barren cave-pocked lands near the Great Wall northwest of Yenan. Failure at any one of a dozen points would have meant extinction of Communist hopes, possibly forever; but success meant more than mere survival. Veterans of the Ch'ang Cheng would wage war against...