THE LONG MARCH: A LIVING HISTORY OF THE LEGENDARY JOURNEY THAT MADE MAO’S CHINA
Book ID/图书代码： 03275005B10113
English Summary/英文概要： In October 1934 the First Front Army of the Chinese Communist Party fled annihilation by Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalists. Some eighty thousand men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao into the unknown. One year, four thousand miles and countless battles later, fewer than four thousand were left. From these survivors would grow the army that conquered China fourteen years later, changing history for ever.
In October 2002 Andrew McEwen and Ed Jocelyn set off to retrace the footsteps of the Red Army and to record the experiences of the last remaining witnesses and participants of the Long March – before it was too late.
The result is an account of the March based squarely on eye-witness accounts. It contrasts strongly with the official version and with recent contentions that the March was a fraud. The Long March really did happen, but it was spun into the key propaganda tool that Mao wielded in his rise to ultimate power. China’s past and present come vividly to life as the authors combine an historic event, a portrait of a changing society, and the story of their own long march, a remarkable feat of endurance in itself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一段记录毛泽东打造新中国的传奇历程的活生生的历史。
1934年十月，中国共产党的第一军逃脱了蒋介石民主主义者的的屠杀，大约八万名男女老少离开了自己的家，跟着毛泽东一起徒步去了一个不知名的地方。一年之后，也就是走了四千英里，进行了无数场战斗后，不到四千人活了下来，这些幸存者中组建了一支14年之后统一中国的队伍，改变了历史的格局。
2002年十月，Andrew McEwen和Ed Jocelyn起程出发来，沿着老红军们曾经的步伐，记录下了最后一些见证者和长征的参与者们的亲身经历-----要是还不去做记录的话，恐怕就要太晚了。
所以就有了这本书，一本完全以亲眼目睹者的角度描述的作品，它和官方的版本有很大的出入，也驳斥了现在很多声称长征其实是个大骗局的观点。长征确有此事，但它已经融入到毛泽东用来为自己掌权的一个重要的宣传手段。作者
们把历史事件、一个变化万千的社会以及他们自己的长征故事-----Andrew McEwen和Ed Jocelyn的旅程本身就是一件非常了不起的壮举----很巧妙地结合起来，这样一来，中国的过去和现在都生动地展现在读者面前。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew McEwen and Ed Jocelyn met at university in England. They moved to China in 1997, Andrew at the start of a successful career as a features editor in the USA and Ed after completing a PhD in History. Both gave up steady jobs as editors – Andrew of Beijing Today, Ed of New China – to start the Long March project. They live in Beijing and are currently planning the Long March II expedition, along an alternative historical route.
Andrew McEwen和Ed Jocelyn相遇在英格兰的大学里。1997年的时候他们搬到了中国，Andrew在美国事业蒸蒸日上，是一位特色文章专栏的编辑，Ed则完成了他的历史学博士。两人都放弃了做编辑的稳定工作，开始了自己的长征规划。两人都生活在北京，正计划沿另一条历史之路开始第二次长征之旅。
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