T E R M S R E F E R E N C E D I N E P I S O D E The Chinese Civil War (Part 3)
Ep. 121
P I N Y I N / T E R M C H I N E S E E N G L I S H / M E A N I N G
Anhui 安徽 Province in China
Chang Jiang 长江 The Yangzi River
Changchun 长春 Capital of Jilin province in Manchuria
Chen Cheng 陈诚 NRA General
Chen Cheng 陈诚 NRA General
Chen Mingren 陈明仁 NRA General
Chen Yi 陈毅 PLA General and future foreign minister
Chen Yun 陈云 One of Mao’s earliest political allies
Dabie Mountains 大别山 Mountain chain just northeast of Wuhan in Hubei province
Du Yuming 杜聿明 Nationalist General
Fenghua 奉化 City and county in Zhejiang, near Ningbo
Fu Zuoyi 傅作义 Nationalist General
Fujian 福建 Province in China
Gao Gang 高岗 PLA leader who served closely with Lin Biao
Geng Biao 耿彪 PLA leader
Guangdong 广东 Province in China Guangxi 广西 Province in China
Han Gaozu 汉高祖 Liu Bang, founder of the Han Dynasty
Hu Zongnan 胡宗南 Nationalist General
Huabei 华北 Northern China
Huaihai 淮海 Civil War Campaign in 1948
Huang Wei 黄伟 Nationalist General
Hubei 湖北 Province in China
Jiangsu 江苏 Province in China
another military region of the Communists covering parts of Shanxi, Inner Jin-Cha-Ji 晋察冀 Mongolia and Hebei
Jinzhou 锦州 City in Liaoning province
Ming Dynasty loyalist who fought on against the Qing from his Taiwan base. Koxinga 郑成功 Also known as Cheng Ch’eng-kung
Li Fuchun 李富春 PLA General
Li Zongren 李宗仁 Nationalist General
Liaoning 辽宁 Province in Manchuria
Liaoshen 辽沈 Civil War Campaign in 1948
Lin Biao 林彪 PLA General in Manchuria and northern China
Liu Bocheng 刘伯承 PLA General (Deng Xiaoping partner in civil war)
Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇 Communist leader (and later Cultural Revolution main target)
Liu Zhi 刘峙 Nationalist General
Ma Yingjiu 马英九 Current president and chairman of the KMT
Manchukuo 满洲国 Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, capital was at Changchun Nie Rongzhen 聂荣臻 NRA General
Peng Dehuai 彭德怀 PLA General
Pingjin 平津 Civil War Campaign in 1948
Shaan-Gan-Ning Bianqu 陕甘宁边区 The military region that covered parts of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia
Shanhaiguan 山海关 Located on the Hebei coast, this is the city where the Great Wall begins
Siping 四平 Site, in Jilin Province, of a major civil war campaign
Xi Zhongxun 习仲勋 Father of China’s current President and CCP Chairman
Xibaipo 西柏坡 Sit of Mao’s military headquarters after he was pushed out of Yan’an
Xikou 溪口 Town in Fenghua county, birthplace of Chiang Kai-shek
Xinbao’an 新保安 City located in between Zhangjiakou and Beijing in Hebei province
Xing Zhong Hui 兴中会 The Revive China Society, forerunner to the KMT
Xuzhou 徐州 City in Jiangsu province
Yang Shangkun 杨尚昆 Longtime
Zhang Wentian 张闻天 One of the 28 Bolsheviks who switched allegiance to Mao
Zhangjiakou 张家口 Strategic city in Hebei near Beijing where Mao headed to after Yan’an fell
Zhejiang 浙江 Province in China
Zhu De 朱德 PLA General