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13 Minutes of 22 Feb. 1941 Currie — Chiang meeting, p. 12; ZS vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 579–80, 586, 591–5, 622–3, 725–37.

14 Mao scenario, 25 Oct. 1940: in Central Archive 1982, p. 34 (E: Benton 1999, pp. 763–4). Spectacular change, 6 Nov.: in ZZWX vol. 12, p. 551.

CHAPTER 23 Building a Power Base through Terror

1 Mao no sleep: Yin Qi 1996a, p. 136. “Stop any assaults on all Nationalist units”: 9 Sept. 1941, Mao 1993a, vol. 2, p. 665. Moscow wanted CCP to tie down Japanese: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 470ff; Dallin & Firsov, pp. 141–6 (Mao — Dimitrov cables, July 1941); Sidikhmenov 1993, p. 30; Dimitrov, 9 July 1941 and ff.

2 Dimitrov, 21 June 1941; Andrew & Mitrokhin, p. 124; OIRVR, vol. 4, p. 214; cf. Peshchersky; Yan Baohang unpublished letter, in Wang Lianjie, p. 337; Yin Qi 1996a, pp. 134–5.

3 –233 Mao determined not to fight Japanese: cables in Mao 1993a, vol. 2, pp. 650–5; in ZDJC vol. 17, p. 119; cf. Titov, vol. 3, pp. 472–4. Mao tells Moscow don’t expect much: Titov, vol. 3, pp. 470ff; Dimitrov, 18, 20 & 21 July 1941; Dallin & Firsov, p. 142. Stalin personally cabled: Panyushkin, p. 170; Titov, vol. 3, p. 472; Shi Zhe 1991, pp. 213–17. Mao infuriated Moscow: Panyushkin, pp. 169–70; Titov, vol. 3, pp. 470, 477–8; Chuikov 1981, pp. 201–2; Vereshchagin, p. 42.

4 Molotov: Chuev 1999, pp. 141–2.

5 –235 CCP “always been pretty”: Mao speech, 1 Apr. 1938, in DSYJ, 1981, no. 4; (E: MRTP vol. 6, pp. 278–9). Young volunteer described: Sima Lu 1952, pp. 45, 80. Inequality: Central Party School, vol. 2, pp. 26, 216–18; Wen Jize et al. 1984, p. 50; Mo Wenhua, p. 404; Wang Enmao, vol. 3, p. 373; Sima Lu 1952, pp. 50–1, 63–4; interviews with Yenan veterans in China.

6 –236 Red Cross: Sima Lu 1952, pp. 88–9; ZDC, 1986, no. 3, pp. 71, 79. Mao’s car: Zhu Zhongli 1995, p. 125; Snow 1941, p. 281; Karmen, p. 114; Sima Lu 1952, p. 123.

7 “the Chairman’s smile froze”: Zeng Zhi, in “Mao and I” Collection Committee 1993a, p. 93. “a chicken a day”: Sima Lu 1952, p. 64. “only three things are equal”: Central Party School, vol. 1, p. 67. Japanese POW: interview with Mitsushige Maeda, 8 Mar. 1998. Could not leave: the writer Xiao Jun repeatedly asked Mao for a pass to leave; Mao personally stonewalled him, in Wang Defen, pp. 105–10.

8 Scene in hospital: Sima Lu 1952, pp. 64–6.

9 Catch 1,000 deserters: Wang Enmao, vol. 3, p. 385.

10 –238 “Wild Lilies”: Wang Shi-wei, pp. 125–32; (E: in Dai Qing 1994, pp. 2–9, 17–20).

11 –239 Mao demanded angrily: Hu Qiaomu, p. 449. Shi-wei’s poster: Wang Shiwei, pp. 139–40; Wen Jize et al. 1984, p. 17. Mao on Shi-wei: Yang Guoyu diary, in YQD, p. 292; Huang Changyong, p. 183; cf. Saich 1996, p. 1240 (Mao 24 Apr. 1945). Shi-wei on Trotsky and Stalin: Wen Jize et al. 1993, pp. 83–5, 188, 191–3 (E: cf. Wen in Saich 1996, pp. 1115–16 and Dai Qing 1994, pp. 47–8).

12 Robotic confession: Wei Jingmeng in Dai Qing, p. 65. Zhao Chaogou et al., p. 49. Interrogator revealed: Wen Jize et al. 1993, p. 78. Hacked to death: Huang Changyong, p. 191. Young volunteers turned into spy suspects: Shi Zhe 1992, pp. 195–7; Li Yimin, pp. 29–43; Ling Yun, in Wen Jize et al. 1993, p. 74; interviews with many Yenan veterans in China, 1993ff.

13 Mao orders: 15 Nov. 1943, in ZDJC vol. 17, p. 385; 15 Aug. 1943, in WHY, 1984, no. 9, pp. 10–14. Real spy suspects “taken care of”: interviews with Shi Zhe, 7 Sept. 1994, 11 Sept. 1997.

14 Shi Zhe 1992, p. 215.