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of China), and
Chung-kuo
wit ta
wei-jen shou-cha
(Letters of China's five great
leaders, i.e., Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Ching-wei, Hu Han-min
and Liao Chung-k'ai). Collected writings and speeches are numerous, for ex-
ample, for Chang Chi, Chiang Kai-shek, Hu Han-min, Tai Chi-t'ao, Teng
Yen-ta, Wang Ching-wei and Wu Chih-hui, among others, on the Nationalist
side,
and for Ch'en Tu-hsiu, Ch'ii Ch'iu-pai, Li Ta-chao and Mao Tse-tung
among those on the Communist side. Several documentary collections are
available in English, for example, Milton J. T. Shieh, The
Kuomintang:
selected
historical
documents,
1894-1969, and Conrad Brandt, Benjamin Schwartz and John
K. Fairbank, A
documentary history
of
Chinese
communism,
though each has only
a few documents from this period. For Soviet Russian and Comintern policies,
Soviet Russia and the East, 1920-1927: a documentary survey by Xenia Joukoff
Eudin and Robert C. North is most useful. The Wilbur and How collection has
been noted; see also M. N. Roy's mission to China: the Kuomintang-Communist
split of
1927,
by Robert C. North and Xenia J. Eudin.
Many participants have left memoirs. Of particular interest is The
memoirs
of
'Li
Tsung-jen,
with Dr Te-kong Tong as interviewer, research scholar, writer
and editor. General Li, who commanded the original Seventh Corps from
Kwangsi, gave an extended account of the battles and politics of the Northern
Expedition. For military organization and campaigns, the major compilations,
which remain invaluable sources for research, are:
Kuo-min ko-ming-chun
chan-
shih (A military history of the National Revolutionary Army);
Ti-ssu-chiin
chi-
shih
(Factual account of the Fourth Army), on the 'Ironsides' of Chang Fa-k'uei;
Pei-fa
chan-shih
(A battle history of the northern punitive expedition), 5 vols.,
comp.
by the Ministry of National Defence, Historical Bureau, Taipei; Kuo-
chiln cheng-kung shih-kao
(Draft history of political work in the National Army),
2 vols., comp. by the Ministry of National Defence, Historical Bureau, Taipei.
Several Russians who assisted the Nationalist Revolution and who survived
the Stalin purges wrote their memoirs with the help of younger scholars, who
were given access to archives. The most extensive is a two volume account by
General A. I. Cherepanov. It is marred, however, by anachronistic biases. A
rough translation of volume one is Notes of a
military adviser
in
China.
Two other
interesting and rather charming reminiscences have been translated into English:
Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova, Two years in
revolutionary
China,
ip2j-rp27, translated by Steven I. Levine; and Marc Kasanin, China in the
twenties, translated by his widow, Hilda Kasanina. An important source for
information on the Russian military aid mission, as well as for recent Russian
scholarship concerning it, is Dieter Heinzig,
Sowjetische militarberater
bei der
Kuomintang 1923-192J. The posthumously published study by Lydia Holu-
bnychy, Michael
Borodin
and the Chinese revolution, 1923-192; used and lists many
recent works by Soviet scholars having access to Russian archives. The Russian
sources have been used most recently by Dan Jacobs,
Borodin:
Stalin's man in
China. The beginnings of cooperation between the two parties is detailed in
Benjamin I. Schwartz,
Chinese communism and the rise
of
Mao,
a classic for its time
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