AP 24.1161 China – Mao Zedong, Civil War, and The Long March

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”

“Women hold up half of the sky.”

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

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The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Ch’ang Cheng—the “Long March”—the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco.

 

 

 


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