This volume opens with the Chinese communists in the midst of the Long March, and threatened with defeat, and ends with the establishment, after a decade of civil war, of a new agreement between the Communists and the Guomindang to join together in resisting Japanese aggression.

This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources, including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's centenary.