Bandit Affairs in Western Hubei

In late 1949, counties across southwestern Hubei were liberated one after another. As the People's Liberation Army moved west, remnants of the Kuomintang joined forces with bandits from across the Hunan-Hubei border, offering them titles and promises and buying them off with huge sums of money in an attempt to launch a counterattack. They posed a grave threat to the newly established people's government. (This book is a nonfiction account of the campaign to suppress bandits in southwestern Hubei.)