Hey everyone, Lazla Montgomery here with another China History podcast.

As I mentioned last time at the conclusion of the John Service four-part series,

Barry up in Beijing gave me the brainy idea to keep things going and explore what happened in China after

Jack Service went back to the US to go face a very hostile Washington crowd.

So today in this episode, we are going to look

at the Chinese Civil War and all the various events

that went down between the time Japan surrendered in August 1945 up to the moment

Mao Zedong had his great historic moment on October 1st 1949.

This period is devastating as it was, was another incredible and dramatic

slice of Chinese history. It's been 18th centuries since the Battle of Red Cliffs during the Three Kingdoms period and we're still

talking about it.

Well, 18 centuries from now in the year 3813, I'm sure history buffs will still remember the revolution that brought the

CCP to power in China in 1949 and the dynasty is still going strong.

Today in this episode one of the series will go up to the end of the ill-fated

martial mission in January 1947 and then in part two we'll pick up at the point

where all niceties and efforts to behave

in front of the USA are pushed aside and the KMT and CCP go at it full bore. Not everyone in China was happy about the outcome of the Civil War.

Many who fled China when the PRC was established, and no small amount of Americans back then have agonized for decades about how this

whole civil war turned out. How could the nationalist government and the KMT possibly

lose out against the communists when they had superiority from almost every conceivable angle.

If only Jiang had been able to rise to the occasion.

If only the KMT operatives were as smooth as the CCP activists and cadres,

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