Diane Zhang, daughter of a Red Army officer, traces her own long march to know her father better:
“‘In school they made it, you know, a very heroic (journey). It’s like only God can do it,’ she recalls. ‘You never thought, you know, your dad, somebody you know.’

Zhang’s father was an officer in the Third Red Army Corps and one of the few who survived the entire 6,000-mile trek. Zhang still struggles to make sense of it.

‘You know, my generation was brought up in Cultural Revolution. We don’t give a damn to the older generation — you’re liars; you painted a perfect world but look at what the reality is (that) you gave us,’ she says.

Her father was later jailed during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, and Zhang couldn’t understand her father’s loyalty to the party…”