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Reflections on the Long March*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Jerome Ch'En
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In Hong Kong during 1966 and 1967 I had spent the first part of my sabbatical leave reading on subjects completely unrelated to the Chinese Communist movement, while on the other side of the border the Cultural Revolution was raging with increasing intensity and threatening to spill over into the Crown Colony.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 111 , September 1987 , pp. 450 - 465
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1987

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1 CQ, No. 40 (October-December 1969), p. 38.

2 Ibid. No. 43 (July-September 1970).

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8 Loc cit. p. 129.

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10 Fangwu, Cheng, ji pantu Zhang Guotao (Zhang Guotao the Traitor) (Beijing, 1985), p. 118;Google ScholarYuqin, Ma, The Red Army's Seven Junctions on the Long March., pp. 53–54. Cheng and Zhang were reunited when the two armies made the junction in Mougong.Google Scholar

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14 Here I rely on the non-communist newspapers — Xinxin xinwen (New, New News) and Xin shubao (New Sichuan) of Sichuan and Shibao (Eastern Times), Shanghai.

15 Yang shows a penchant to condemn Chinese historians in China as a group, for instance on pp. 235 and 249. Are there no competent historians and party historians on the mainland at all? Is this low opinion of his fair and substantiable? Or is this because Yang himself is going through a process of resocialization? This last point is not personal at all. Resocialization is unavoidable when one's circumstances change, even if one tends to be conservative. It is a well studied and quite common phenomenon.

16 I fully realise the difficulty in so doing in a short account as Yang presents in his article.

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