Mapping Red Memories
The establishment of sites of Red Tourism in contemporary China is a complex process involving different actors that range from the central government and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP)...
The establishment of sites of Red Tourism in contemporary China is a complex process involving different actors that range from the central government and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP)...
Since 2005 sites of red tourism (红色旅游) have been supported and developed by the government of the People’s Republic of China, intending to become a key element of the booming tourism industry while serving...
During 1927, several uprisings were initiated by the Communist Party (CCP) against the Guomindang (GMD) after the First United Front collapsed, such as the Nanchang Uprising 南昌起义 in August or the Autumn Harvest Uprising...
During the years of the First United Front (1923-1927) the Communist Party (CCP) and the Guomindang (GMD) cooperated to fight against warlords in northern China, who threatened the domestic stability of the young Republic...
Because of its immediate vicinity to the North Korean border, the City of Dandong 丹东市 was an important combat base for the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) who participated in the Korean War (1950-1953). The...
In the late 1920s, the CCP leadership considered the establishment of Soviet areas 苏区 as an important measure to strengthen the masses’ influence on political affairs. As Tony Saich has shown, the main purpose...
The main part of the Red Army forces 红军 moved from inland provinces to China’s Northwest during 1934-1935 to avoid the assaults by the Nationalist (GMD) troops under their leader Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石 (1887-1975)....
After the Mukden-Incident on 18th September 1931, the Japanese Imperial Army was able to conquer the territory of Manchuria within several weeks (Schmidt-Glintzer 2008: 204f.) and founded the puppet state Manchukuo only one year...
When the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) was over, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started immediately to honor the personalities, who contributed in an outstanding way to China’s victory over the Japanese Imperial Army. Manchuria,...
As part of the united front formed by the Nationalists (GMD) and the Communists (CCP) to resist the Japanese invasion, the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army 国民革命军陆军新编第四军 (thereafter the NFA) was established in October...
Four months after the beginning of the Long March 长征 in October 1934, the Red Army 红军 captured the city Zunyi 遵义市 in Guizhou Province 贵州省 and held an enlarged Politburo conference there (Yang...
The First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started on July 23, 1921 in a house within the territory of the French Concession in Shanghai. Due to the search of the location by French...
Between the Japanese Empire’s conquest of Manchuria in 1931 and its capitulation in September 1945, the Imperial Army had committed a large number of war crimes. In popular history, these crimes are mostly associated...
During the Qing Dynasty and Republican China, Xinjiang’s connection with the central government and China proper was weak. It obtained provincial level status in 1884 and, when the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) arrived in...
After the Nanchang Uprising 南昌起义 in 1927, the CCP started to intensify its ambitions to found a standing army, which later became known as the Red Army 红军. Since October 1930, the GMD government...
In June 1935, the CCP leadership ordered the probably most important combat forces of the Red Army 红军, namely the First Front Army 第一方面军 and the Fourth Front Army 第四方面军, to found a soviet...
After the second Sino-Japan war broke out in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua Univeristy, and Nankai University merged into a wartime university first in Hunan province. Pushed by the marching Japanese army, they moved on...