25,000 Li. Treasure Edition (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Dong Biwu
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Publish Date: 2006-09-15
Features: This book was published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Long March victory of the Red Army. The manuscript of "Twenty-five Thousand Li" preserved by the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall is currently the earliest and most authoritative Long March memoir in existence. It was compiled in Yan'an in February 1937 based on the author's original draft by an editor. The authors of this memoir were all Red Army soldiers who personally participated in the Long March, many of whom later became important leaders of the Party and the army. They recorded the entire process of the Central Red Army's 25,000-li Long March in writing, making it the most credible first-hand account of the Red Army's Long March. With the original drafts long lost, this manuscript is undoubtedly the closest to the original and is a highly valuable primary document for the history of the Party, the army, and the Chinese Revolution. To preserve this precious document forever, the Shanghai People's Publishing House captured and printed the entire manuscript with extremely high precision. The book's invaluable documentary and historical value has been highly praised by experts from the Central Documentation Office, the Central Committee of the Party's History, and the Military Academy of Sciences. Experts have described the publication of this book as having "great."