368: The Second United Front


Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing in 1946.

When Japan attacked the US and the UK, China had new allies, but getting American Lend-Lease aid into China was a challenge.

Mao Zedong married Jiang Qing and secured his control over the Chinese Communist Party.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

“Asian Drums”
Composed and performed by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
Used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 license. Source.

Closing War Theme


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2 thoughts on “368: The Second United Front

  1. Hi Mark, thanks for this podcast, its a really good piece of work that deserves a lot more credit.

    Tried to find the two pieces of art that you mentioned – “Disputing with the landlord” and “The meshes of the law” – but got no luck on finding an image of the actual pieces. Just a reference that they exist. Maybe the internet is too filtered for us in the west?

    Cheers from Argentina!

    • I don’t know. I tried to find images of them as well; I wanted to post one on the website, but I didn’t have any luck with it either.

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