Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938)

By 1936, after a decade of Civil War and even before the Xi''an Incident, Mao Zedong had begun talking about a "New Stage" of cooperation between the Guomindang and the Communist Party. With the establishment of a framework for cooperation between the two parties, and as Japan began its brutal war against China, Mao began to develop this theme more systematically in both the political and military...