Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT · 1935

Zunyi Conference (1935)

On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Zunyi conference”

15–17 Jan 1935 — The surviving leadership meets in a merchant’s house in occupied Zunyi and turns against its Comintern-backed commanders. Mao Zedong, sidelined for two years, joins the military triumvirate. The march immediately changes its manner of movement, using feints, reversals and separate columns. The party has found the commander it will keep for forty years.

When: 15–17 Jan 1935
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Long March (chapter 7 of Chinese Revolution)
Atlas: China in Revolution, 1911–1949

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Map showing Zunyi Conference (1935), turning point in China in Revolution, 1911–1949 — TURNING POINT · CHINA IN REVOLUTION, 1911–1949

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · USOfficeoftheHistorian — ChineseRevolutionof1949 · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · US diplomatic records — Jehol occupation,March 1933 · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Tangku Truce Agreement,31May1933 — published primary text · USMA: Warlords, 1925 · USMA: Long March, 1934-35 · USMA: Japanese Occupation, 1940

Source details

USOfficeoftheHistorian — ChineseRevolutionof1949. Historical facts consulted; original prose/artwork not republished
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
US diplomatic records — Jehol occupation,March 1933. Historical facts consulted; no source artwork or prose republished
Natural Earth. Public domain
Tangku Truce Agreement,31May1933 — published primary text. Historical facts consulted; original prose/artwork not republished
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished

Warlord regions use the nearest published coalition map from 1925 or 1928–1937. District-level allegiances changed, so these are represented by a disclosed regional reference.

proxy: 1938–1945 earliest separate multipart source reference · reconstruction: 1933-05-31 · reconstruction: 1935.82 · reconstruction: 1936–1937reference forpost1933Manchukuo · reconstruction: Late1935 regionalbase;1936 source · trace: 1925 regionalcoalitions · trace: 1933occupation;1940publishedprovince reference · vector: 1932–1937

Layer records and reconstruction methods