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Xi’an Incident (1936)
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12 Dec 1936 — Zhang Xueliang — whose Manchuria Chiang would not fight for — kidnaps his own commander-in-chief to force a united front against Japan. Stalin urges Chiang’s release; Zhou Enlai negotiates it. Civil war is suspended by mutiny: the CCP survives 1936 because a warlord wanted his homeland back.
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- Long March (chapter 7 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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