THE LONG MARCH
Dec 29, 2020
3 minutes
Contrary to its lofty goals, China’s fledgling Communist Party had little support in the provinces where most of the rural population lived. Founded by a group of conspirators in Shanghai in 1921, the party’s resources were insufficient for challenging the Kuomintang (KMT). As a compromise of sorts, many active communists joined the government and paid lip service to China’s republican aspirations. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his armed forces (half-a-million strong and built with German and Soviet assistance) on the Northern
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