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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
The Xi’an Incident
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Long March in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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