Huaihai campaign
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The Huaihai campaign, or Battle of Hsupeng, was one of the military conflicts in the late stage of the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. The campaign started wh
People's Liberation Army troops, supported by captured M5 Stuart light tanks, attacking the Nationalist lines
Nationalist troops defending hilltop positions during the campaign
Huaihai Campaign Memorial Tower in Xuzhou
Deng Xiaoping
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Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1989. Emerging as China's most influentia
Huaihai campaign
…the Central Plains Field Army under Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi (Commander of the Eastern China Field Army and liaison to the Central Plains Field Army) and Deng Xiaoping (Political Commissar of the Central Plains Field Army) to assault the Nationalist garrison in Henan and Anhui to breakthrough to Shandong. Two field…
Deng in 1979
Deng Xiaoping at age 16, studying in France (1921)
Deng's name is spelled "Teng Hi Hien" on this employment card from the Hutchinson shoe factory in Châlette-sur-Loing, France, where he worked for eight months in 1922, and for another stint in 1923 where he was fired after one month, with the bottom note reading 'refused to work, do not take him back'
Deng Xiaoping in NRA uniform, 1937