1934-1936-The Red Army

Author: Shi Yonggang
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Seventy years later, the Red Army has become an interesting commemorative subject in both official and circles, as well as between fashion and tradition, and between eyewitnesses and imaginers. Each person writes their own definition of this distant army, even mutually confirming each other. At 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, and 10 years old. Such a depth and cross-section of age. Like today's China, tradition and modernity coexist, rich and complex, simple yet full of vitality and energy. Why do such different groups of people equally miss an era that has passed? How do they find the code for collective coexistence? On this path of seeking survival, Mao and his troops were constantly correcting their direction. It took two whole years and the lives of over 100,000 people to determine the endpoint—or the starting point—of this path. It is as described by Zweig as "The Starry Sky of Human Crowds," where those stars were shining in China in the 1930s. Today, in the so-called "sense of historical direction" and the so-called context of globalization, we still try to discern the latitude and longitude of this 1930s route through the red hue of this army on the historical map, and strive to return to common sense.