One of the many unraveled rumors about the Red Army soldiers along the epic Long March (1934-1936) is whether they washed their feet with Moutai, the country's national liquor, now officially served at state banquets .
Documents show that the Red Army's efforts to improve commanders' tactical skills helped them draw advanced strategies and tactics to secure continuous victories in the Long March, a military expert said.
109-year-old Zhou Xiulian looked closely at the photo of her 27-year-old husband, tears rolling down her cheeks.
A village in East China has turned from one that used to supply goods to revolutionary forces during war times to one that sells local farm produce online.
Premier Li Keqiang vows to further improve infrastructure in Jiangxi province, where the Long March started 82 years ago.
Zunyi City is a well-known tourist destination due its key role in China's revolutionary history.
At Peking University's Weiming lakeside, students can be seen resting on chairs, walking around the lake or taking photographs. Few are aware of a tomb in the woods nearby.
On the third floor of the Miller Nichols Library of the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), there is an around 30-square-meter Edgar Snow reading room that has shelved 614 books covering the household, schooling, trip, connections, biographies and old-age life of well-known American journalist Edgar Snow.
It was early October 1934, and the Red Army just started the Long March when it accidently came across Rudolf Bosshardt, a Swiss British missionary working in China, in Guizhou province. Bosshardt, who was 37 and then stayed with the Red Army for more than 500 days, translated the whole map.
The Long March of the Red Army in 1934 is a great statement of the determination of the Chinese people fighting for a change and a historically important milestone, said former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, as China is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Long March this year.
The Long March, a two-year tactical retreat of the Red Army to evade Kuomintang forces starting in 1934, is to be staged as an opera at National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing over July 1-6.
In order to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of Red Army's Long March, National Centre for the Performing Arts invited domestic first-class artists including Yin Qing, Zou Jingzhi, Tian Qinxin and Yang Xiaoyang to constitute the creative group of opera The Long March. The opera will premier from July 1 to July 6.