Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Dongo Movement Was Suppressed
The dongo movement was, in fact, suppressed. How and why? Well, this isa a bit of a complicated story, but with the patience of your listeners, i'll try to explain this. In part ait was because another revolutionary by the name of pungda hi came up to jing ansan in the winter of 19 28 29,. And all of a sudden there were just too many people to feed. So they said, pung, why don't you stay here and hold the base area? Juda and i will take most of the troops, our troops, and we'll leave. The military, mouse red army, such as it was, was nearly destroyed
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