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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The Nanchang Uprising (August 1, 1927)
The End of the United Front (June to July 1927)
“Like Taking a Bath in a Toilet” (May and June 1927)
“An Example of the Chinese Tenant-Peasant’s Life”
Mao Tries to Legislate a Peasant Revolution: The Wuhan Land Commission (April to May 1927)
The Fifth Party Congress and the ‘Better Fewer but Better’ Approach to Summing up a Massacre
Rivers of Blood in the Streets of Shanghai: The Massacre of the Communists by the Guomindang Right
The Third Armed Uprising in Shanghai
The Split in the Guomindang: The Left Government in Wuhan and the Military Headquarters in Nanchang Develop Irreconcilable Differences (January to March 1927)
Summation, Red Terror, and Frustration: The Aftermath of the Second Armed Uprising in Shanghai (February and March 1927)
The Second Armed Uprising in Shanghai (February 1927)
From Dog-Beating Squads to the First Armed Uprising: The Shanghai Communists’ Steep Learning Curve in Developing Armed Struggle (1922 to 1926)
When Peasant Revolution Meets the Theory of the Productive Forces: The Communist Debate on Unity with the Nationalist Left
More Mass Movements, More Problems: The Aggressive Line of the Guangdong Comrades
Revolution in the Countryside: The Peasant Movement in Hunan in the Wake of the Northern Expedition
The Northern Expedition Begins: Attempts at Merging the Mass Movement with Regular Warfare
Mao in 1926: War in Hunan, Coup in Guangzhou, Polemicizing for the Peasant Movement
Spreading Peasant Revolution Across Guangdong, and Beyond: The Guangzhou Peasant Movement Training Institute
The Beginning of the Peasant Movement in Guangdong Province: How the Communist Party Got a Mass Base of Peasant Support in Spite of Itself
The March 1926 Zhongshan Gunboat Incident: Coup and Countercoup in the Pearl River Delta
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