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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Failed Peace and Manchuria in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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