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