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封面
版权信息
文前
引文
Foreword
Chapter 1 The Fire Burning Below
1. Sun Yat-sen's Difficulties
2. Stalin Man of Steel
3. Who Spotted a Winner in Mao Zedong?
Chapter 2 An Oriental Dream
1. A Close Neighbor but Worlds Apart
2. Rice and Water Subsistence Hatches Fascism
3. The Black Crows Take Flight
Chapter 3 Molten Lava
1. Leaders Ideology and Will
2. Who Discovered Chiang Kai-shek?
3. From the Pen to the Gun
Chapter 4 Encirclement and Suppression
1. Li Lisan Awakens Chiang Kai-shek
2. Battlefields and Opposing Generals
3. Battlefields and Communist Generals
4. The Foreign Moon Shines Brighter
5. The Blockhouse Policy - a Chinese Initiative
Chapter 5 The Rise of Japanese Militarism
1. The Sub-lieutenant Assassin
2. Blood Sacrifice of the Yamato People
3. Crocodile Tears
Chapter 6 The Fall
1. The Foreign Moon Shines Brighter
2. Peng Dehuai Cai Tingkai Soong Mei-ling
3. Breaking the Encirclement - the Pain and the Glory
4. Metamorphoses
Chapter 7 Breakthrough
1. The Nationalists Were No Dummies
2. “Zhu and Mao Are Among the Troops for Sure”
3. Head to Head on a Narrow Road
Chapter 8 Xiangjiang River oh Xiangjiang River
1. “Chiang Hates Us More than Zhu and Mao”
2. Chiang Kai-shek the Only One in the Dark
3. The First Corps in a Deluge of Gunfire
4. Chiang Sighs: “These Really Are Foreign Troops”
5. Military Men and Politics
Chapter 9 Gold in the Fire
1. Metamorphoses
2. Exhausted Remnants Kindling to Ignite the Future
3. Chen Yi and the “Chen Yi Doctrine”
4. Doomed but Not for All Time
Chapter 10 All Eyes on the Vast Southwest
1. Many Birds with a Single Stone
2. Quantitative Change Qualitative Change
3. China Brought Forth Mao Zedong
4. KMT Generals Each Having an Axe to Grind
5. Infighting Between Liu Family Warlords for Control of Sichuan
Chapter 11 Misery and Glory
1. “There Are No Supreme Saviors”
2. The Phoenix Reborn
3. Red Army Encounters an Experienced Tough Foe
4. Chishui River Crossings Not a Divine Plan of Mao's Devising
5. Into Yunnan: a Daring Move in a Desperate Situation
Chapter 12 The Cold Iron Chains of the Dadu Bridge
1. “Chinese Mars” Pulls Red Army Through Turbulent Jinsha River
2. Rift at Huili the Unavoidable Happens
3. Immortal Bronze Statues
Chapter 13 Overcast to Cloudy
1. Currents and Undercurrents
2. A Blood-red Sunset
3. Cracks in the Solid Ice
Chapter 14 Fortune and Misfortune Walk Hand in Hand
1. “Zhang Guotao Is Power-obsessed”
2. Three September 9s in the Life of Mao Zedong
3. Coral Lilies in Bloom
Chapter 15 History and the Individual
1. Hesitation at the Watershed
2. One Word from Stalin Was Worth Ten Thousand
3. History as Decided by Individuals; Individuals as Decided by History
Chapter 16 Song of the Whirlwind
Notes
Bibliography
Index
