Mao, l'empereur rouge

The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People s Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west.br/br/ The most well known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934. The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic, led by an inexperienced military commission, was on the brink of annihilation by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek s troops in their stronghold in Jiangxi province. The Communists, under the eventual command of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, escaped in a ci Supplier:xCPAxMediaxCo.xLtd. 1060_05_CPA0030192,copyright: IMAGO/UIG / www.imago-images.de / IMAGO/UIG

Après le désastre du "Grand Bond en avant", Mao, menacé par une opposition interne au sein du Parti, se retire dans sa villa. Mais le leader va s'appuyer sur la jeunesse et les étudiants - ses "gardes rouges", qui traquent inlassablement dans la rue les contre-révolutionnaires, pour mettre en œuvre sa "révolution culturelle". Entre humiliations et destructions, la Chine plonge dans un climat de terreur.