But Mao’s plans to head toward the Soviet border changed when Mao and his colleagues discovered from Guomindang papers that a Communist base area existed in Shaanbei, in northern Shaanxi province near the base of the Great Wall.

Government was not a burden that you had to pay for; it was a magic pudding; you could cut slice after slice and there was always more.

Thor swung his mighty hammer.

Bless thy doublet, it is not over-new, threadbare as thy stories:— …