The Yangtze is still surging (The Ten Thousand Li Great Wall Painting) Part II: The Ten Thousand Li Great Wall Painting

Author: Zhou Erfu
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Publish Date: 1991-06-01
Features: This book is the second part of the six-volume series novel "The Great Wall of Ten Thousand Li." "The Great Wall of Ten Thousand Li" follows the main storyline of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, combined with the global anti-Fascist front, in the fight against Japanese aggression. It primarily features the high-ranking leaders from the enemy, our side, and our allies, adopting a panoramic perspective to vividly depict the eight-year War of Resistance against Japan. The entire series exposes the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of China, celebrates the arduous and indomitable struggle of the Chinese nation against Japan, ands the complex contradictions within Chinese society, as well as the ever-changing international political landscape. It focuses on major events and the important political and strategic decision-making processes, successfully creating the images of high-ranking figures such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Emperor Hirohito, Prince Konoe Fumimaro, Hideki Tojo, and Heitaro Okamura, as well as Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. This monumental work boasts a broad vision, a grand structure, rich and detailed historical records, and an epic-scale grandeur. It reveals many little-known historical facts and presents the author's unique insights into history. "The Yangtze Still Rises" portrays the real historical scene from the fall of Nanjing to the loss of Wuhan. It successively depicts the Japanese invasion of Central China, the Battle of Tai'erzhuang, the fall of Xuzhou, and the loss of Wuhan. It separately describes the efforts of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China—the former fighting bloody battles on the main front, while the latters guerrilla warfare in the rear areas.