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7 Ching-kuo sole heir of Chiang: Taylor 2000, pp. 7–8; Wang Shichun, p. 20. Ching-kuo to Russia: Chiang Ching-kuo 1937 in Cline, pp. 154–7, and Chiang Ching-kuo, pp. 66ff.; Tikhvinsky 2000, pp. 341–8 (Dossier on Chiang Ching-kuo for Brezhnev, 1969); TsDA, 146/6/1607, p. 5 (Ching-kuo letter to Dimitrov, Dec. 1936); n.a. “Jiang Jingguo in Russia,” p. 179; Yu Miin-ling, pp. 112, 121.

8 –132 Shao Li-tzu was mole: Interview with Shao, July 1956, in YD, pp. 81–3; CPPCC 1985a, p. 241. Shao telegram to Moscow, 23 Apr. 1927, VKP vol. 2, p. 696. Ching-kuo kept in Russia: Chiang Ching-kuo, pp. 179ff. Peggy: Dennis, p. 86. As of 2003 Tim Dennis was still in Russia, where he was a well-known Sinologist, under the name “Timur Timofeyev.” Mme Sun Soviet agent: VKP vol. 4, p. 1100 (Wang Ming cable to CCP, 13 Mar. 1937); cf. NA, HW 17/3 (1934 Moscow cables to CCP intercepted by British).

9 RGASPI, 495/74/281, pp. 34–5 (to “Comrade Wang Ming” for “advise” [sic], 26 Jan. 1937, in English); VKP vol. 4, pp. 1092–3.

10 Proposed hostage swap: Chiang diary, 16 Dec. 1931, in Yang Tianshi, p. 370. Chiang diaries: ibid., pp. 370–4.

11 Death of Shao junior: CPPCC 1985a, pp. 37, 240; “The tragic end of a Chinese who had wounded his lover,” Corriere della Sera, 22 Dec. 1931, p. 8.

12 Shaanxi Red base built: CPPCC 1985a, pp. 34, 114, 240–1; Chiang, pp. 755, 759; Wang Zicheng, p. 25.

13 Wu Changyi, pp. 92–103.

14 –135 Chiang to American emissary: Currie, “Notes on Interviews with Chiang Kai-shek” (typescript, 17 Mar. 1941), p. 30. Reds steered by radio: Radio Corps History Committee, p. 95; Song Kaifu, in Fourth Front Army Memoirs Collection team, pp. 274–5; Yan Daogang, pp. 12–13. Shanghai radio station shut down: Hsu En-tseng et al., pp. 189–90 (E: Hsu, U. T., pp. 97–9); Radio Corps History Committee, p. 98; Yue Xia, p. 137; NA, HW 17/3, Moscow cables to Shanghai, 5 July 1934 (no. 225), 7 July 1934 (nos. 226, 227); cf. Titov, vol. 2, p. 135. 2 Sept. diary: in Yang Tianshi, p. 375.

15 Chiang absents himself: Chiang, pp. 752–65. Ching-kuo held hostage: Chiang Ching-kuo, pp. 178ff. “family calamity”: Yang Tianshi,p. 375.

CHAPTER 13 Long March II: The Power Behind the Throne

1 Guizhou warlord recalled: Wang Jialie, pp. 85–6, 88. Chiang funnels Reds to Sichuan: Braun 1982, p. 91; Chiang, p. 783; Wang Jialie, pp. 87–8. Mao started active steps: Zhou 1972, p. 67; Zhang Wentian 1943, pp. 78–80; Mao speech, 13 Nov. 1943, in Hu Qiaomu, p. 294; cf. Kampen 2000, pp. 66–77; Braun 1974, pp. 94ff.

2 Lo resentment: Zhang Wentian 1943, p. 78; cf. Titov, vol. 2, pp. 122ff. Designing litter: Liu Ying, p. 56. “lying in a litter”: Mao told staff, 25 Dec. 1960, in Ye Zilong, p. 38. Litter-carriers: Guo Chen, p. 72–3. Plotting on litter: Zhu Zhongli 1995, pp. 54, 60; Cheng Zhongyuan 1993, p. 197; cf. Kampen 1989, p. 708.

3 –138 Pointing a pistol: Nie 1991, p. 206 (E: Nie, p. 198). Zunyi meeting: Chen Yun 1935, pp. 36–41 (E: Chen Yun 1935, pp. 643–8); Braun 1982, pp. 102–4; cf. Kampen 2000, pp. 69–76; Titov, vol. 2, pp. 101–29; Titov 1976; Sladkovsky, pp. 139–43. Mao gets no top Party or army job, but enters Secretariat: Chen Yun 1935, p. 42 (E: Chen Yun 1935, p. 648); Braun 1982, p. 104; Xu Zehao, p. 223.