Zhu De

Zhu De’s Background

• Family & Education
• Early Political Interests and Involvement up to 1916
• Life as a Warlord (1916-1920)
• Political and Military Experiences in Europe
• Membership in Chinese Communist Party

Zhu De’s Rise to Prominence

• Early Association with Mao Zedong
• Role in Red Army and Guerrilla Warfare
• Involvement and Changing Role in the Long March
• Tactics in the Sino-Japanese War
• Role in the Second United Front
• Military successes in the Civil War
• Role in the Korean War
• Relevance after 1953

Analysis of Zhu De’s Role and Influence in China

• Leadership during the Long March
• Career in Yenan
• Commander-in-Chief in Sino-Japanese War
• Commander-in-Chief of Peoples’ Liberation Army after 1949
• Deputy Chairman of the People’s Republic
• Chairman of the National People’s Congress
• Denouncing during the Cultural Revolution

Research Sources

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Scholarly Articles

The following articles were sourced through Google Scholar. They are made available by JSTOR which can be accessed at these Australian universities and colleges, among them the University of Wollongong Library. Gaining access to this service would most likely provide the most up-to-date scholarly information. Because the content is copyrighted, it can not be shared on a public wiki, but will be kept for local use at Oxley College.

• Mao Tse-Tung as a Charismatic Leader – Stuart R. Schram, Asian Survey, Vol. 7, No. 6 (Jun., 1967), pp. 383-388

• The Nanchang Uprising – J. Guillermaz, The China Quarterly, No. 11 (Jul. – Sep., 1962), pp. 160-168

• The Otto Braun Memoirs and Mao’s Rise to Power – Dieter Heinzig, The China Quarterly, No. 46 (Apr. – Jun., 1971), pp. 274-288

• Dimensions of Guanxi in Chinese Elite Politics – Xuezhi Guo, The China Journal, No. 46 (Jul., 2001), pp. 69-90

• Wang Jiaxiang, Mao Zedong and the ‘Triumph of Mao Zedong-Thought’ (1935-1945) – Thomas Kampen, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (1989), pp. 705-727

• Wang Jiaxiang, Mao Zedong and the ‘Triumph of Mao Zedong-Thought’ (1935-1945) – Thomas Kampen, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (1989), pp. 705-727

• Memoirs of a Chinese Marshal–The Autobiographical Notes of Peng Dehaui (1898-1974) by Zheng Longpu and Peng Te-huai: The Man and the Image, by Jurgen Domes, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 16 (Jul., 1986), pp. 81-98

• Einstein and Mao: Metaphors of Revolution – Edward Friedman, The China Quarterly, No. 93 (Mar., 1983), pp. 51-75

• On Photographs – Roderick MacFarquhar, China Quarterly, No. 46 (Apr. – Jun., 1971), pp. 289-307

Articles for Purchase

• Results 1-10 of 25 found for Zhu De – published Jan 1879 to Feb 2007 in selected journal: China Report ($25 / article for 1 day)

• Archived News Search from Google provides “Pay-to-Use” and subscription access to many articles from The New York Times and other newspapers with deep archives.

From Google Books and Questia

• Chu Teh – Who’s Who in World Politics: From 1860 to the the Present Day, By Alan Palmer

• Mao’s road to power: revolutionary writings 1912-1949 By Tse-tung Mao, Stuart R. Schram

• Warfare in Chinese History – By Hans J. Van de Ven

• Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese – By Khoon Choy Lee

• Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic – By David Ernest Apter, Tony Saich

• The Found Generation: Chinese Communists in Europe During the Twenties – By Marilyn Avra Levine

• The Man Who Stayed Behind – By Amanda Bennett, Sidney Rittenberg

• New Perspectives on State Socialism in China – By Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich, Julian Po-keng Chang

• The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-1958 – By Qiang Zhai

• China’s Reforms and Reformers – By Alfred K. Ho

• The Promise of the Revolution: stories of fulfillment and struggle in China’s hinterland – By Dr Daniel B Wright

• Mao – By Michael J. Lynch

• Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward – By David M. Bachman

• The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985: a self portrait – By Laszlo Ladany

Web Resources

• Wikipedia – a good overview with links to major events in the modern history of China.

• BoredofStudies – Outline on the Life of Zhu De – Outline the life of Zhu De 1920-1949 (The mark for this essay was 17/20)

• Zhu De – from the People’s Daily Online

• Zhu De [Chu Teh] Commander and founder of Chinese Red Army and Field Marshal of the people’s Liberation Army Pointer (V26 N2, Apr – Jun 2000)

• Portaits of Zhu De from Stefan Landsberger’s Propaganda Poster Pages

• Zhu De – from the 60th Anniversary of Victory in War of Resistance Against Japan – PLA Daily 2005-08-19

• Nanchang Uprising Museum from CRIENGLISH.com

• Country Studies – China from the US Library of Congress (in the sections on Rise of the Communists, End of the Era of Mao Zedong, 1972-76, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, 1927-79, and China and the Four Modernizations, 1979-82)

• The CCP and the Fujian Rebellion – Frederick S. Litten, Republican China, vol. XIV, number 1, November 1988, pp. 57-74

• THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY DURING THE ERA OF THE COMINTERN (1919-1943) – TONY SAICH, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Huge Bibliography – circa 1850-1950

About Agnes Smedley

• Biographical Sketch and excerpts from letters from Spartacus Educational, UK

• Brief Biography of Agnes Smedley from NOVA’s Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies series

• Photographs of Agnes Smedley:Foreign Correspondent in China from the Daughter of Earth: Agnes Smedley Collection

• Agnes Smedley: On Proving What Her Worst Enemies Had Claimed (Much to My Regret) – By Ruth Price (author of The Lives of Agnes Smedley)

• An American abroad: Agnes Smedley and the world of communism – from The Weekly Standard, Jan 31, 2005 by Harvey Klehr

• Quotations from Agnes Smedley from BrainyQuote

• Agnes Smedley – A Passionate Warrior with No Compromise from China.org

• ALONE WITH HER FREEDOM a New York Times review of DAUGHTER OF EARTH By Agnes Smedley. Foreword by Alice Walker.