1 Jerome, Ch'en, “Resolutions of the Tsunyi Conference,” The China Quarterly, No. 40 (10–12 1969), pp. 18–19.Google Scholar Referring to Kuo's list of participants which is nearly perfect, Ch'en argues: “I have strong reservations about this list. The International faction would appear to be so weakly represented that it would have been foolish to agree to the Conference; Liu Shao-ch'i by all accounts did not take part in the Long March; if Mao was only an ordinary C.C. member, it is odd that he should have drafted the Resolutions and be elevated to the Politburo rank coupled with the directorship of the Military Commission; and, finally, the possibility of Otto Braun, a foreigner, attending a Politburo meeting seems questionable.”

2. See “The Resolutions on Summing up the Campaign against the Enemy's ‘Fifth Encirclement,’” in Liuda yilai: dangnei mimi wenjian (Since the Sixth Congress: Collection of Secret Documents of the CCP) (compiled by the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee in 1941 and republished by People's Press in Beijing in 1980), Vol. 1, p. 678.

3. See “Wu Yunpu's diary on the Long March,” in Wenshi ziliao huibian (Collection of Historical Materials) (compiled by the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese People in Beijing in 1980), Vol. 72, pp. 36–37; also see Zhongguo gongchangdang lid zhongyao huiyi ji (Important Conferences in CCP History) (Shanghai: Shanghai People's Press, 1982), Vol. 1, p. 168.