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The fact that the red army travelled 5,000 miles over less than 300 days of marching is genuinely insane. They travelled over some of the most hazardous terrain in the world averaging 24 miles per day everyday🤯

“The average man here has a bath all over only twice in his life-once when he is born, the second time when he is married.” - people I tend to encounter in public transport 🫣

I need more details on the fact that there was a Chinese dude who was associated with Mao Zedong in early years and later joined Ku Klux Klan in California 💀

When you’re in a competition for being the most indecisive but you’re against Mao choosing which middle school to enroll in 💀

Makes perfect sense that Mao had daddy issues 👁️👁️

“How had the incredible brotherhood arisen, banded together, held together, and whence came its strength? And why had it perhaps, after all, failed to mature, why did it still seem fundamentally like a mighty demonstration, like a crusade, of youth?”

Yeah.. it definitely failed to mature. It’s one way to put it.

This book is great at making you feel like you’re a part of an epic adventure 👁️👁️ just at the very start of it before everything goes sideways as always

I really liked the bit where Zhang Xueliang got treated for his opium addiction with morphine and that it actually worked 🫪

It's not so much of a slog as it is an immense amount of information, all of which I find to be vastly interesting and often compelling. This was really the history I was looking for.