The Great Road

The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh , first published in 1956, is the account by American author Agnes Smedley of Chinese military and political leader Chu Teh (now spelled Zhu De). Chu, close associate of Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong), rose from an impoverished peasant family, to eventually becoming a general and one of the pioneers of the Chinese Communist Party. He would later go on to be one of the principle founders of the People's Liberation Army. The Great Road treats Chu's life fro