Talk:Long March

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Long March article. Please sign and date your posts using four tildes (~~~~). New discussion topics go at the bottom of the page; click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Frequently asked questions. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject. Talk page guidelines Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Don't bite the newcomers! This article is part of WikiProject China, a project to improve all China-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other China-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. (add comments) More information about this article... High This article has been rated as High-importance on the importance scale. This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. More information... Related task forces... Chinese military history task force

Archives Contents 1 Distance Error 2 Eight Points of Attention 3 Introduction 4 Epoch Times External link

[edit] Distance Error

• The communists escaped in circling retreat to the north which ultimately covered some 8,000 kilometers (4960 mi.) over 370 days. The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and arrived 9600-km (5952 mi.) west, then north, to Shaanxi.

What shortcut let them travel 8000 km to reach a place 9600 km west, then north? I think there was an editing problem there. -- SEWilco 04:13, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

• I wasn't experimenting. I added information from the French version.

[edit] Eight Points of Attention

There is absolutely no mention of the eight points of attention in either the Long March or the Mao Zedong article; I find this pitiful mainly because it was such a vital factor that earned the CCP peasant support. The peasants were disillusioned with the KMT and their lack of concern for the peasants, whereas the CCP's policy of the eight points of attention earned them support otherwise impossible to gain (the peasants had become very cynical)....Yet there's no mention of it here! Surely someone should correct this discrepancy. -- Natalinasmpf 21:26, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Natalinasmpf; if you are so concerned about the error, why don't you add it yourself?

[edit] Introduction

The following phrase seems contradictory and the second sentence in particular is confusing. Could someone who knows more about this topic than I clear it up:

The communists escaped in circling retreat to the north, which ultimately covered some 8,000 km (4,960 miles) over 370 days. The route branched through some of the most difficult terrain of western China and arrived 9,600 km (5,952 miles) west, then north, to Shaanxi.

Thanks. Gerry Lynch 10:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

There are so many errors in the original post. Mao was not in the leader position when Long March started.

I have tried to correct both of these problems. Ryanjo 02:41, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Epoch Times External link

There was an external link to a website named Epoch Times, which gives a highly opinionated version of the rise of the Chinese Communist party and other events, using inflammatory terms such as "Steadily Accumulating Wickedness" and "Hoodlums and Social Scum Form the Ranks of the CCP". Since links from Wikipedia to highly slanted sites are discouraged[1], I have deleted it. Ryanjo 15:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)