刘伯承

Liu Bocheng is an important military figure in modern Chinese history, and his related writings are mostly found in revolutionary reminiscences and historical accounts. This site holds three of his works, namely the three volumes of Sparks That Set the Prairie Ablaze (upper, middle, and lower), which take the years of revolutionary struggle as their background and record the combat experiences and observations of those who lived through the period; they fall under the category of historical reading. Because public information is limited, details of Liu Bocheng's life, education, and official positions are not elaborated here. As for the works collected on this site, their prose is plain and substantial, focusing on the concrete presentation of historical events and human activity, and they possess considerable value as historical source material. Such reminiscence texts preserve on-the-spot memories of a particular era and offer general readers relatively direct reading material for understanding that period of history, exerting a certain influence in the popularization of history and education in revolutionary tradition.