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... that in the 1950s, 70% of senior officers in the
People's Liberation Army came from the Eyuwan Soviet area? Source: "...according the statistics from the early 1950s, an astonishing 70 percent of cadres at the divisional level and above in the
People's Liberation Army were natives of Eyuwan." From page 304 in Benton, Gregor (1992). Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-year War in South China, 1934-1938. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Great article, very well done. Hook was so interesting to me that it caught my eye while scrolling on the DYK nomination page; couldn't resist reading the article, so decided to review while I was at it. Sources all reliable, prose is solid, no obvious copyright violations. Two minor notes that I think shouldn't interfere with the acceptance: first, I'm not 100% sure on how the copyright of Xu and Zhang's images pan out if authors are unknown; what if the photographers were private citizens who died in like 2000? But I think it's so unlikely these will get copyright struck that we're probably safe. Second, claims made in image captions that aren't directly apparent from images should be cited too. Otherwise, great job, enjoyed the read!
toobigtokale (
talk) 23:38, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. I'll work on citing the image captions. As for the copyrights, all images published in China before 1946 (50 years before URAA) are public domain in the US. I can't 100% confirm that that's the case with these images, but since both were taken in the 20s/30s, it probably is true.
SilverStar54 (
talk) 16:18, 9 October 2023 (UTC)