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03.31.18
The U.S.-Made Chinese Future That Wasn’t
Soon, such a scene would become unthinkable. It was a cold morning in early March 1946, a rocky airstrip laid along a broad, barren valley in China’s northwest, lined by mountains of tawny dust blown from the Gobi Desert. Six months earlier, one war...
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11.15.16With Odes to Military March, China Puts Nationalism into Overdrive
New York Times
President Xi has been making the case for a “new long march,” using the anniversary to rally the public and warn against creeping complacency
Depth of Field
11.08.16
Dongbei’s Last Match Factory, Capital Straphangers, Retracing the Long March...
from Yuanjin Photo
In October, several publications marked the 80th Anniversary of the Chinese Communists’ Long March. We have chosen two stories that revisited this event and that were standouts, visually. Elsewhere, photographers followed stories both large and...
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11.04.16In Xi’s China, Everything Old is New Again
Foreign Policy
Eighty years after the end of the Long March, a Communist leader asks for another one. What is he really seeking?
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11.02.16China Long March Film: US Glamour Model’s Role Draws Ire
BBC
State broadcasters touched a nerve among its viewers by casting an actress and model seen as "anti-China" in a documentary about the Long March
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12.19.85The End of the Long March
from New York Review of Books
In Peking last September, China’s supreme leader, Deng Xiaoping, pensioned off the surviving generals of the Long March. Fifty years after their epic exploit, these old soldiers finally agreed to fade away. Deng must hope that the legend has now...