{"id":31237,"date":"2021-04-22T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/mao-zedong-orders-communist-armies-to-prepare-to-cross-yangtze-1949"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:30:30","slug":"mao-zedong-orders-communist-armies-to-prepare-to-cross-yangtze-archive-22-april-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31237","title":{"rendered":"Mao Zedong orders communist armies to prepare to cross Yangtze \u2013 archive, 22 April 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>22 April 1949:<\/strong> The Chinese communist revolutionary called for the \u2018anti-democratic Kuomintang forces on Chinese territory\u2019 to be wiped out<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanjing\">Nanking<\/a>, April 21<br \/><\/em>The Communist Peking radio said to-night that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mao-zedong\">Mao Tse-tung<\/a>, the Communist leader, had issued orders to the Communist armies to prepare for a general crossing of the Yangtze. His manifesto said:<\/p>\n<p>I. Strike forward bravely with determination and completely wipe out all anti-democratic, reactionary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Civil_War\">Kuomintang<\/a> forces on Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/mao-zedong-orders-communist-armies-to-prepare-to-cross-yangtze-1949\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 April 1949: The Chinese communist revolutionary called for the \u2018anti-democratic Kuomintang forces on Chinese territory\u2019 to be wiped outNanking, April 21The Communist Peking radio said to-night that Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader, had issued orde&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mao-zedong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31237\/revisions\/31238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}