In 1921, the red boat in Nanhu, Jiaxing, carried the beliefs of more than a dozen idealists and set sail in the dark and stormy weather. This cluster of faint sparks will eventually burn into a prairie fire that illuminates China during twenty-eight years of bloody struggle. From the first gunshot at the head of Nanchang City to the Jinggang Mountains; from the snow-capped mountains and grasslands on the Long March to the bright lights of the cave dwellings in Yan'an.
