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4 days ago · Zhu De (born Dec. 1, 1886, Yilong, Sichuan province, China—died July 6, 1976, Beijing) was one of China’s greatest military leaders and the founder of the Chinese communist army. Born into a peasant family, Zhu was initially a physical education instructor.
1 day ago · As soon as Japan’s impending surrender was known, the commander of the communist armies, Zhu De, ordered his troops, on August 11, to move into Japanese-held territory and take over Japanese arms, despite Chiang Kai-shek’s order that they stand where they were.
2 days ago · In April 1928, Zhu De and Chen Yi led the army to Jinggang Mountain and the two forces joined to form the Fourth Corps of the Red Army. In December, the army in the Pingjiang Uprising led by Peng Dehuai also went to Jinggang Mountain, which became the Fifth Corps of the Red Army.
5 days ago · Triloki Nath Kaul was India's Chargé d'affaires in Beijing and one of the key negotiators of the China-India agreement on Tibet, which was crucial to the signing of the Panchsheel Agreement in 1954.
2 days ago · By agreement with the Nationalist government, the Red Army was renamed the Eighth Route Army (later the Eighteenth Army Group); Zhu De and Peng Dehuai served as commander and vice commander, and Lin Biao, Ho Lung, and Liu Bocheng were in charge of its three divisions. The communist base in the northwest covered parts of three provinces with an ...
3 days ago · Middle Chinese. *kʰuŋX mˠiæŋ. Zhuge Liang ( pronunciation ⓘ) (181 – September or October 234), [a] also commonly known by his courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese statesman, strategist, and inventor who lived through the end of the Eastern Han dynasty ( c. 184–220) and the early Three Kingdoms period (220–280) of China.
2 days ago · In 1928, in a bid to consolidate and develop revolutionary bases, forefathers of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong and Zhu De, with their army, built the Red Army Mint in Jinggangshan, modeling the coins on the Mexican silver dollar.
