Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and the Chinese Revolution - KU ...

nights on the train. We finally arrived in Moscow in the middle of
December, 1926.
This was my first long trip to a foreign land where, while the old
regime had been overthrown by revolution, the new order did not
always work without difficulties. Its imperfections were to catch one's
eye everywhere, as we witnessed on the way to Moscow. We had
bitter experiences and suffered on this trip. Nevertheless, our revolutionary
spirits did not sag an inch, and we still envisioned a glorious
future for Soviet Russia, then the only ally of our country in its fight
for independence and freedom.
Notes
1. Ching-jih ta-lu (Mainland today; Taipei), no. 96 (1959), p. 24.
2. Ibid., p. 96.
3. Ibid., no. 98, p. 32.
4. A book privately published and distributed by Chiang Ching-kuo, the elder son of
Chiang Kai-shek. The book was written when he served as the Foreign Ministry's special
envoy in Northeast China in 1945. Unfortunately I have not been able to examine a copy
of the book, and the quotation given was copied by a friend in Taipei and communicated
to me in a letter. My friend, however, failed to supply the page on which the quotation
appears.
5. In Chiang Kai-shek's A Fortnight in Sian: Extracts from a Diary (Shanghai: Walsh
Ltd., 1937, p. 57) Li T'ien-ts'ai is identified at the time of the Sian Incident as "head of intelligence
work under Chang Hsueh-liang." His formal title is listed (p. 118) as Assistant
Director of the Northwestern Political Training Department of the Military Affairs Commission,
under Chang Hsueh-liang.
6. Feng Yu-hsiang had recently returned to China from the trip he had made to Russia
in May, 1926. Feng had asked the CCP to supply him with one hundred political workers
for his army, and the CC of the CCP had given the Party committee for Peking and surrounding
areas the task of recommending cadres to fill these posts. I already had made
some recommendations of my own, and at this point I was merely recommending myself
for one of the posts in Feng Yu-hsiang's army.
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