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Sun Shuyun, a native of China, grew up well-grounded in what she calls "the founding myth of Chinese communism -- The Long March." And she used that as the title of her new book, "The Long March."
In 1934, 200,000 soldiers marched 8,000 miles due northwest over mountains, grasslands and swampy terrain to launch the cultural revolution. It was said to be Mao Zedong's finest hour as leader of the movement that separated his people from that of Chiang Kai- shek, whose people now live on the island of Taiwan.See the full content of this document
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'Long March' Rewrites History
Allegedly, it was a peasant uprising, a people embracing a social and political system similar to the one in the Soviet Union, as Chiang Kai-shek drove the Red army out of its bases, determined to defeat this unruly movement.
But in...See the full content of this document
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