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After the CCP -leadership had reached Yan’an 延安 (Shaanxi Province 陕西省) after the Long March 长征 (1934-1935), it still was not uncommon that &#160;Mao Zedong 毛泽东 (1893-1976) and his supporters sometimes had to abandon their safe havens and seek shelter in the vicinity. The Phoenix Mountain Revolution Site 凤凰山革命旧址 for instance was abandoned by the CCP after a Japanese air raid attacked the base on the 1935. &#160;The Wangjiaping Old Site 王家坪旧址, in the northwest of Yan’an City &#160;become home to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission of Chinese Communist Party 中共中央革命军事委员会 and the command of the Eight Rout Army 八路军 for a period of ten years (1937-1947) (Denton 2012: 267). In March 1947, Wangjiaping was taken by GMD troops, but one year later the CCP reconquered its former revolution base.In 1956, not even ten years after the end of the Chinese Civil War, the site in Wangjiaping was renovated and opened to public in 1959 as a site commemorating the revolution.The site of today contains several historical exhibition rooms such as &#160;the auditorium of the Central Military Commission 军委礼堂位, the Combat Research Office 作战研究室 and former residences of Mao Zedong and other political and military leaders such as &#160;People’s Liberation Army marshal Zhu De 朱德 (1886-1976) or Central Military Committee member Wang Jiaxiang 王稼祥 (1906-1974) (Red Tourism).Picture 1: The schomatic Drawing of Wangjiaping Revolutionary Site According to several websites in “Baidu” the main attraction of the Wangjaping museum is the huge auditorium hall of the Central Military Committee, which offers a capacity to nearly 1000 people. &#160;Next to the auditorium hall, Mao’s former guest chamber can be found.Picture 2: Mao Zedong's guest chamber Just like The Phoenix Mountain Revolution Site 凤凰山革命旧址, the base in Wangjiaping also contains three stone caves that were also used by the CCP-leadership. According to the Website “Red Tourism”, the left cave had been an office room and the right one was used as a chamber for staff. The middle cave was utilized as a meeting room.Because of its ten-year use, the Wangjiaping Old Site represents a bipartite place of communist revolutionary history due to the fact that both the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) had been events, which shaped the character and the history of the revolution base in Wangjiaping.Bibliography:Denton, Kirk A. (2012): “Yan’an as a site of memory in socialist and postsocialist China”. In: Matten, Marc Andre (Hg.): Places of Memory in Modern China – History, Politics and Identity. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 233-283.Selden, Mark (1995): The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.“Baotashan Zhong-Ri qingnian gaoge huanwu, Yan’an qingnian he Riben qingnian lianhuan, Riben qingnian canguan le Wangjiaping geming jiush 宝塔山上中日青年高歌欢舞,延安青年和日本青年联欢,日本青年参观了王家坪革命旧址 (The Chinese and Japanese youths sang and danced at the Pagoda Mountain, the Yan'an youth and the Japanese youth joined in joy, and the Japanese youth visited the Old Site of the Wangjiaping revolution)” . In: Shaanix Ribao (Xi’an) 陕西日报(西安), 1965, Vol. 9.4, p. 3.&#160;Websites:http://www.redtourism.com.cn/tris/front/zh_CN/spot_341.html List of Pictures: Featured Image: The Wangjiaping Old Site (author: Marc Andre Matten)Picture 1: The schomatic Drawing of Wangjiaping Revolutionary Site (author: Marc Andre Matten) Picture 2: Mao Zedong's guest chamber (author: Marc Andre Matten) 