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Comparative Miracles. At the moment of victory over Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, Mao Tse-tung resolved that, after decades of devastation, starting from a primitive economy, China must industrialize-not primarily for a better life, but so that China could become a militant force in world affairs...
...after stopping off in Moscow, Li and his wife headed back to China, and, at the party's orders, went their separate ways-Tsai Chang to Shanghai to agitate among the workers in the cotton mills, Li Fu-chun to Canton to become an instructor at Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy, where Mao Tse-tung was briefly chief of propaganda...
...After Chiang's Kuomintang and the Communists came to bloody parting of the ways, Li and his wife joined the Long March in which Mao led 90,000 Communists 6,000 miles from Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan, escaping the pursuing Kuomintang. Li Fu-chun ably handled supply problems for the fleeing Reds. When the Communists finally reached Yenan 14 months later, only 25,000 of them were left. Li's wife has never fully recovered from the ordeal. Correspondent Edgar Snow dined with the Lis in 1936 and noted in his diary that Tsai Chang still...
...addition to Chile and Peru (whose approximately 20,000 local Chinese residents still lean toward Chiang Kai-shek), Peking's chief targets are Cuba and Brazil. In both countries local Communist parties are controlled by the Kremlin, but signs of sympathy for the Chinese Communists are unmistakable...
Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...