Foreword of the Renewed Edition /1
Foreword /1
The Red Armys Victories in Southern Shaanxi and Northern Shaanxi /1
The Red 25th Army That Was Active in Southern Shaanxi /1
The Founding of the Red 15th Army Corps /6
The Northeast Army Violently Thrust Yanan /8
The Laoshan Battle /11
The Yulingiao Battle /15
The Party Central, Chairman Mao and the Central Red Army Arriving in Northern Shaanxi and the Zhiluo Township Battle /17
Winning over Zhang XueHang for the Cause of United Resistance to Japan /25
Zhang Xueliang, Depressed, Sought for a Way out /25
Gao Fuyuan Courageously Conveyed Messages /34
The Visit to Luochuan /42
Liu Ding Appointed as Representative /48
The Yanan Talks /54
Developing Low-Level United Front Work /63
Winning over Yang Hucheng for the Cause of United Resistance to Japan /67
Initial Moves /67
Yang Huchengs Political Attitude and Situation /70
Initial Steps in Putting forward the Issue of Uniting with Communists to Resist Japan /75
Chairman Mao Himself Dispatched Wang Feng to Xian /81
Wang Shiying Secretly met with Yang Hucheng /90
Several Principles Agreed upon between the Two Sides and the Setting up of the Liaison tations /93
Wang Bingnan Returned from Abroad /98
The Policy of Compelling Chiang to Resist Japan and the shaping up of the Situation of "Three Entities in One Body" /101
Compelling Chiaug to Resist Japan and the May 5th Circular Telegram /101
Evolution of Relationships between Zhang and Yang /105
Shaping up of the "Three in One" Stance of United Resistance to Japan /117
Zhang and Yangs Preparatory Anti-Japanese Activities /123
The Wangqu Officers Training Corps /123
The Association of Anti-Japanese Comrades /127
The Students-Soldiers Squad /130
Coalescing with Power Groups of Various Localities /133
Support Given to the Anti-Japanese Masses Movement /139
The Influence and the Special Agents" Activities Of the Chiang Faction in Xian /144
The Influence of the Chiang Faction in Xian /144
The Event of 《the Survival Road》 /148
The Event of Besieging and Searching the Provincial Party Organ /153
Chiang Kai-shek Pressed Zhang and Yang to Continue"Communists-Annihilation" /163
Chiang Kai-sheks Resolve /163
Coming to Xian /166
The Wangqu Lecture of Instruetion /167
Dispositions for Large-Scale "Communists- Annihilation" /171
Zhang and Yangs Counter Measures /175
Eve of the Incident /177
Obliged to Mount the Liang Mountain /177
Secret Plotting and Disposition after the "Weeping Petition" /179
False Alarms /182
Indignant Waves of the Masses /187
Eve of a Violent Storm /188
The Capture of Chiang /193
The Capture of Chiang and the Circular Telegram /193
Chiang Kai-shek Was Accommodated at the Xincheng Building /199
Chiang Kai-shek Wrote His Testament and Summoned Shao and Yang /205
An Act at the Xijing Reception Center /207
Zhang and Yangs Military and Political Measures as well as Their Publicity Work among the Masses /214
Military and Political Measures /214
Publicity Work among the Masses /220
Domestic and Foreign Reverberations of the lncident /228
Differences in the midst of Nanjing /228
International Reverberations /231
General Trends of the Power Blocs in Various Localities /234
The CPCs Analysis of the Incident and Its Position /238
Nanjing" s Rescuing Operation and Xians Decision /242
Song Meilings Rescuing Operation /242
The Red Army Delegations Role in Deciding the Policy /247
Zhang Xueliangs Stand and Yang Huchengs Apprehensions /256
Negotiation undertaken and Release of Chiang /261
Negotiation between the Two Sides of Xian and Nanjing /261
Zhou Met with Chiang /267
Controversy over the Issue of Chiangs Release in the midst of Xian /269
Zhang Xueliang Escorted in Person Chiang Kai-shek /276
Chiangs Revenge and Xians Counter Measures /279
Chiang Kai-shek Perfidiously Sought Revenge /279
The Spectacle of Zhang Xueliangs Detention /281
Military Pressure and Political Estrangement /291
Xians Counter Measures /294
The Two Sides Reopened Negotiations /304
The First Fenghua Negotiation /304
The Second Fenghua Negotiation /313
The Tongguan Negotiation /319
Difference between the Peace and the War Options, and Internal Contradictions /323
Difference between the Peace and the War Options in the midst of Xian /323
Undermining and Interferences /327
Activities of the CPC Delegation /331
Intensification of Contradictions and Breakdown in the midst of Xian /335
Intensification of divergences between the War and the Peace Options /335
The Weinan Conference in Favor of War; the Supreme Conference in Favor of Peace /342
The "February 2nd" Incident /348
The Xian Incident and the Shaping up of the Anti-Japanese Situation /354
Entry of the Central Army into Xian /354
Deployment of the Northeast Army to East and Reorganization of the 17th Route Army, and Their Consequences /357
A Confidential Telegram regarding Reorganization of the Red Army /361
The Third Plenary of the Kuomintang and Its Initial Reforms /364
The Victorious Shaping up of the Anti-Japanese National United Front and the Situation of National Resistance to Japan /368