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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949

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TURNING POINT · CHINA IN REVOLUTION, 1911–1949

Jun 1924 — With Soviet money, arms and advisers, Sun Yat-sen founds a party army academy on an island below Canton. Commandant: Chiang Kai-shek. Political department: Zhou Enlai. Nearly every commander of the wars to 1949 — on both sides — passes through its first classes.

This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The United Front Marches North in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.

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