Retraces the route of the Red Army of China's Communists in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1934. Includes interviews with survivors of the 6,000 mile march.
Reprint of a 1937 text hailed as the first authentic account of the Chinese Communist Party and its social revolution, based upon interviews the author had with Mao Tse-tung and other Chinese leaders, as well as his first-person observations as a seven-year resident of the country.
the true history of communist China's founding myth
Sun, Shuyun
2006
Retraces the steps of the 200,000 soldiers in China's Communist Party that were forced into a strategic retreat across the barren north of China, where the few who survived the trek gathered strength and launched a new revolution.
During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against the Japanese invaders.