The beleaguered Soviet state and its confrontation with Japan were major factors in the great conflict between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Advisors, reporters, images, guns flowed in all directions. Who was a patriot and who a collaborator? The answers were very different indeed in Yan'an, in Chongqing, in Mukden, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, and in Cold War Taipei and Beijing.
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