biography
| name: |
Zhu De
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also spelled Chu-teh
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pronunciation:
[joo de]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1886–1976)
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| biography:
| One of the founders of the Chinese Red Army, born in Sichuan, C China. He was closely associated throughout his later career with Mao Zedong. He took part in the Nanchang Mutiny (1927), his defeated troops joining with those of Mao to found the Jiangxi Soviet. There, he and Mao evolved the idea of ‘people's war’, beating off attacks by vastly superior Nationalist forces until finally driven out in 1934. The Red Army then undertook the Long March, in which Zhu De was the leading commander. After the Japanese War, he was the key military strategist in the defeat of Jiang Jieshi, and from 1949 was commander-in-chief of the Chinese armed forces. |
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