DBWI Mao Zedong does not die on the Long March

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I was doing a paper on the history of communism in china ,and came upon a strange man called mao zedong. He seemed to be unifying ,but he died of exposure during a bad winter. His party then splintered ,and became bandits.
wi he lived on?
 
Well, it was a little more complicated than "and then they became bandits" -- you had the power struggle between Zhao Enlai and Zhang Guotao, the latter prevailing, then the whole damn infrastructure collapsing as he went crazy with purges (not to mention Chiang consolidating his position the whole time)...
 
Wow, he is undeservedly obscure, isn't he? Personally, I think he could have had a considerable impact if he had somehow managed to hold the forces together. Looks like the escape was his idea at least partly. The question is, could he have managede to stay relevant in the fasce of so much more talented military leaders? The Chinese revere intellectuals, but a peasant-born librarian as commander of a revolutionary army? I can't see it.

Still, with his connections to Moscow, that makes a real chance of a divided China post-WWII instead of a bloc-free hegemonial rival for India. Delhi coulkd end up dominating the Indian Ocean basin from Madagascar to Singapore in this TL.
 
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