No Mao- does this prevent the Chinese Civil war and much elsed

Didn't they have anybody else who'd read Sun Tzu?

I don't know, but even if they did, I'm pretty sure they didn't apply it, given how they were still focused on capturing cities, as opposed to rural guerilla warfare, even after they were initially pushed out of the urban areas, until Mao (among others, I'm sure) forced them to change their strategy.
 
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