Essays Tagged: "Long March"

The Long March by William Styron

The novel The Long March by William Styron is a prime example of anti-war, anti-goverment, and anti-military writi ... military anymore. They know it strengthened them, but is a dead branch on their lives that they no longer need.

(4 pages) 26 0 2.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Mao Zedong and him as a leader

omic chaos and the political anarchy that reigned after the collapse of the Guomindang. Through the Long March, his efforts to eliminate feudalism, mass organizations, and commitment to improving the ... nt in China was initiated even before the existence of a People's Republic. It started out with the Long March, which took place in late 1934. 'The Long March has no parallel in society; it is as enor ...

(18 pages) 329 1 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Why the communists won the Chinese Civil War.

r constant strain and often verged on or resulted in all out war. An example can be found in the prolonged battle conducted against Chiang's army on the central plains of China in 1929 by the warlords ... ed anti-kuomintang coalition.This also helps to explain why the communist party survived the famed 'Long March' following Chiang's fifth and highly successful 'encirclement campaign' of 1933. Given th ...

(6 pages) 132 1 4.4 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Analysis on Article 'The Long March' and link to poems of Peter Skrznecki

Title: The Long MarchCreator/ Composer: Jean BaileyPublished: Australian Left Review, 1984Text Type: ArticleSou ... brought about the over turn of the governing powers and the establishment of communism.Analysis'The Long March' is an objective article detailing the events, consequences and lasting effects that this ... eographical choice, of which the implications may still be noted throughout Asia.The admiration the long march received is vastly credited to the composition of the Red Army itself. Prior to the journ ...

(6 pages) 55 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The long march - chinese history

What actually happened in the long march?On 16 October 1934 87,000 soldiers of the red army retreated from the jiangxi soviet, pla ... d made them lose than 45,000 men, which is more than half of the men at first when they started the long march. On 9 january, 1935, Otto Braun was suspended at the zunyi conference and the miiltary co ... d Zhu de, the red army took a new direction: they started splitting up and reforming, and they took long, twisted paths that made the GMD hard to find them.

(1 pages) 40 0 3.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Spring Moon and the History of China

of the Chang clan. Specific historical events from the Boxer Rebellion, through the revolution and Long March to the opening of China in the 1970’s are mirrored within the plot of Spring Moon. S ... monious Fists did their damage to see the light? And why, once she saw it, could she not have lived long enough to push the belated reforms through?” (Lord 186-187).On May 4, 1919, students throu ...

(5 pages) 25 0 4.1 Dec/2007

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

1949 and how it pertains to Billy Joels' "We Didn't Start the Fire"

ring, he married Marilyn Monroe, but that only lasted a handful of months. Sadly, he passed away in March of 1999 of complications of lung cancer (Par. 4).One final event that happened in 1949 was tha ...

(2 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays