• Leaving Donggu, Taking Changting (February to March 1929)

  • Dec 7 2023
  • Length: 23 mins
  • Podcast

Leaving Donggu, Taking Changting (February to March 1929)

  • Summary

  • How the Fourth Red Army spent their time in Donggu, and how they took the first city in the new base area in the Jiangxi-Fujian border region.

    Further reading:
    Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949
    Agnes Smedley, The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh [Zhu De]
    Joseph Fewsmith, Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934
    Gao Hua, How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930-1945
    Stephen Averill, “The Origins of the Futian Incident”

    Some names from this episode:
    Xiao Ke, an officer in the Fourth Red Army
    Peng Pai, Communist peasant organizer
    Long Chaoqing, important early Communist in Jinggangshan area
    Peng Dehuai, Leader of the 5th Red Army
    Guo Fengming, Bandit turned Guomindang local despot in Changting

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