Food & Beverage July 2022
Book review : Empire of the Moghul by Alex Rutherfold
Key Events
1. The Father of Modern China had died two years earlier in 1925. The vacuum had triggered the scramble for national leadership again.
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2. The decisive players were the War Lords as the country was fragmented along regional lines and cliques and counter cliques were formed in seeking to further their varying objectives.
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3. Chiang Kai-Shek had sought to rid the country of the powerful War Lords with his Northern Expedition in 1926 and had purged the Communists in the Kuomintang in 1927 and ended the First
United Front with the Communist Party.
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4. Mao Tse-tung had avoided execution in Changsha and escaped to the Jinggang Mountains in the border region of Jiangxi and Hunan Provinces with l000 followers to set up his first peasant soviet in 1927. It later became known as the birthplace of the Chinese Red Army and the ‘cradle of the Chinese revolution’.
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5. Chu Teh had abandoned the Nationalists and joined the struggling Communists at Jinggang Mountains with his 1000 remaining troops in 1928 to be encircled by the forces of the KMT.
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As they say, the rest is history!
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Book reviewed by Mr. Teh Beng Soon
