Other events in this phase
Failed Coalition11- Chongqing negotiations
- Double Tenth Agreement
- Marshall Mission to ChinaCurrent record
- Cease-fire order and Political Consultative Conference
- Political Consultative Conference
- Executive Headquarters at Peiping
- KMT-CCP army reorganization agreement
Why the mediation mattered
The Marshall Mission failed to stop the return to war, but it is the diplomatic axis for understanding the timetable between Japan’s surrender and the renewed civil war.
The photographs are treated as evidence of Nationalist, Communist, and U.S. actors sharing the same negotiation space, not as generic portraits.
Media
Visual recordMao Zedong and George Marshall, 1946George Marshall meets Mao Zedong in 1946 during the U.S. mediation mission to China.
Visual recordZhang Qun, George Marshall and Zhou Enlai, 1946A single frame of Nationalist, U.S., and Communist representatives, showing the mission’s tripartite mediation structure.
Visual recordGeorge Marshall in Hankou, 1946Marshall’s Hankou visit illustrates that the mediation mission combined negotiations with field inspection and military liaison work.Source Trail