The Long March 1935 Author:Dick Wilson The 1935 Long March was a 6,000 mile strategic retreat for the Chinese Communist Party. The retreat took Mao Tse-tung and his army of 100,000 men and women across the face of China from the south central China base in Kiangsi Province to the northern province of Yenan close to the Great Wall of China. In Yenan the foundations of the 1949 Revolut... more »ion were laid.« less