The Conqueror of China’s Wild West
Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
On April 11, dozens of top Chinese military officers, government and party officials gathered in the frontier city of Urumqi to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Wang Zhen, the man who conquered China’s vast western region for the Communists and in doing so created a unique institution.
In 1954, when the country w…
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