ABSTRACT
The communist military commander Chu Teh issued an order to communist forces on 12th August to disarm Japanese forces throughout north China and Manchuria. Chiang Kai-shek demanded that the armed forces and civil administration of the communist-held areas should subordinate themselves to the central ministries and military command of the National Government: when this had been done, he would recognise the communist party as a legal party. During 1947 the government held its positions in Manchuria and made some gains in the north-west, capturing the communists' former 'capital' Yenan in March. The policy of the victorious Chinese communists is based on 'the teachings which unite the theories of Marxism-Leninism with the actual practice of the Chinese revolution—the Thought of Mao Tse-tung'. Eminent sinologists have pointed out that parallels can be found in Chinese history to many features of the communist regime.
