Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Fall of Yan’an (1947)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “Yan’an falls”
19 Mar 1947 — Hu Zongnan’s 200,000 take the empty cave capital: the CCP has evacuated everything that matters and lets the symbol go. Nationalist banners photograph well over a town of no military value while Lin Biao counterattacks in Manchuria. High tide, and the turn.
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- Turning point
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- Chinese Civil War (1945–47) (chapter 10 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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