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Joseph Esherick: Bandits and Bolsheviks: the Shaanxi-Gansu Base Area before Mao
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, CambridgeSpeaker: Joseph W. Esherick, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego In the fall of 1935, Mao read a newspaper article about a Communist base in Northern Shaanxi. He redirected the Long March to that base, which would become the Yan’an-centered “revolutionary holy land” from which the Chinese Communist Party would rise to power during […]