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Gregor Benton. New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938–1941. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 949. $80.00.

This is a very important book. It describes events in the Yangzi (Yangze) Valley that culminated in a key episode during the Anti-Japanese War, when the headquarters of the Communist-controlled New Fourth Army, operating under the fragile United Front between the Guomindang government of China and the Chinese Communist Party, was destroyed. This was the South Anhui Incident, and it was significant in several ways. The destruction was engineered by the Guomindang, and thus marked the end of the United Front and any pretense of unity in the Chinese struggle against Japan. It also marked the final triumph of Mao Zedong's form of communism in China, and there is a strong implication that Mao's headquarters in Yanan helped to facilitate the debacle. Finally, it brought to an end the broad popular alliance for resistance that the New Fourth Army had led in the rich lower Yangzi Valley, among peasants, intellectuals, and the wealthy, which differed from the harsh class struggle favored by Mao in the poverty-stricken northwest. Each of the elements foreshadowed terrible future developments for China: the Civil War between the Guomindang and the Communists, the autocratic and eventually totalitarian rule of Mao, and the bitter class warfare that later engulfed China under his rule. . . .

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