Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snow found Soviet China a territory about the size of England. He was welcomed by wiry, black-bearded Red Commander Chou Enlai, scion of a Mandarin family, one-time head of Whampoa Academy (Chiang Kai-shek's officers' training school), who suggested a 92-day itinerary, gave Snow permission to write as he pleased. Astonished at the youthfulness of the Red Army personnel (average age of its officers was 24, of its rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort...
...leader who made the greatest impression on Snow was 44-year- old Mao Tse-tung, "Lincolnesque" Chairman of the Chinese People's Soviet Government, a peasant who turned classical scholar, organized the Communist Party in China, and became as well-known to Chinese as Chiang Kai-shek when Chiang Kai-shek put a price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang...
...fifth campaign (October 1933 to October 1934) Chiang Kai-shek sealed south China's Soviets with a ring of forts, mobilized a million men. Defeated in open battle, the Communists decided on a fantastic escape. Leaving a skeleton force at the front, they moved south & west on the night of Oct. 16, 1934, before Chiang Kai-shek's army got wind of their retreat. With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment. In forced marches, they crossed twelve provinces, over the 16,000-ft. passes of the Tibet mountains...
Edgar Snow left Soviet China two months before Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped, three months before the Communists and the Generalissimo began their elaborate hatchet-burying in preparing to fight Japan. He prophesies flatly that the Communist-Kuomintang alliance "concludes an epoch of revolutionary warfare and begins a new era." Newspaper readers following the Japanese advance might conclude that the new era is to be one of Japanese dominance. Not so, says Edgar Snow. He quotes Mao's prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated...
...contains a brief, complicated but convincing account of the Sian Mutiny. Last week a detailed study of this affair was published by Snow's sub-correspondent James Bertram (FIRST ACT IN CHINA, Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek...