Historians AOS1
C.P. Fitzgerald, Nationalist Decade
"wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them"
Mao, The Yan'an Way
10 October 1949
PRC Proclaimed
18% / 1.5%
CPP reduced loan rates from 18 to 1.5 per cent in Yan'an
Jonathan Fenby, Warlord China
"We have stood up"
Mao, proclamation of PRC
22 October 1935
Long March ends
85,000 / 750,000
Nationalist / combined Warlord troops in the Long march
"it was one long battle from beggining to end"
Edgar Snow, The Long March
"If I control the army, I will have the power to control the country. It is my road to leadership"
Jiang after death of Sun Yixian
6 July 1926
Jiang elected chairman of the GMD CEC, giving him full control of the party 6 days after launching the Northern Expedition
85,000%
Nationalist inflation rate by 1949
"Necessity was the mother of the CCP's reinvention"
Bratly Womack, Jiangxi Soviet
"The ricksaw man and the wharf coolie are worse off than the horse and camel in many another country"
W.H. Donald, advisor to Nationalist Government during the 2nd sino-japanese war
7 July 1937
Skirmish between Chinese and Japanese troops triggers 2nd Sino-Japanese War
69,500 / 268 / 13
reported to the Control Yuan, officials found at fault, officials sacked
"This army was continuously beaten because it had no soul"
Journalist Jack Belden, GMD troops at the end of the Civil War
"when we estimate the forces of the revolution, we must emphasis that the peasantry is the most important part"
Li Dazhao
22 September 1937
2nd United Front declared
1 million / 4.5 million
CCP member ship in 1945 / CCP membership at end of Civil War