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The Memorial of the Reorganized New Fourth Army is located in the Prefecture City of Yancheng 盐城. It consists of the main memorial hall 主馆区, the memorial statue of the Reorganized New Fourth Army Headquarter&#160;重建军部纪念塔, and the original site of the Reorganized New Fourth Army Headquarter in the Taishan Temple 重建军部旧址(泰山庙). Currently occupying an area of 13,000 square meters, the Memorial has been open to the public since 1986.After the victory of the Battle of Huangqiao in October 1940, the Headquarter of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army in Central China 华中新四军八路军总指挥部 was established in Hai’an 海安 on 17 November 1940 and moved to Yancheng on November 23. After the Wannan Incident (under construction) on 7 January 1941, the Nationalist government disbanded the New Fourth Army on January 17. The Chinese Communist Party immediately ordered its reorganization on January 20, merging the New Fourth Army with the Eighth Route Army. The headquarter of the reorganized army, with its seven divisions and one independent brigade, was located in Yancheng. Chen Yi 陈毅 (1901-1972) served as the new commander and Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇 (1898-1969) as the political commissar. In Yancheng, the Communists set out to stabilize the social order and organize the peasants by repairing irrigation systems, cutting rents and interests, training low-level administrative staff, and cultivating peasant activists. These measures helped boost the local people’s support for the Communist rule and for effectively fighting against the Japanese (Benton 492-493). The main memorial hall is designed in such a shape that it looks like the Chinese character “four”&#160;四, which symbolizes the New Fourth Army (featured image).&#160;It houses the seven-part permanent exhibition of the history of the New Fourth Army, which highlights the leadership of the Communist Party—represented by military leaders such as Chen Yi 陈毅, Liu Shaoqi 刘少奇,&#160;&#160;Zhang Yunyi 张云逸&#160;(1892-1974)，Lai Chuanzhu 赖传珠(1910-1965), Deng Zihui 邓子恢 (1896-1972) – and its achievement of fighting against the Japanese aggression. The exhibition hall of the New Fourth Army Major Figures&#160;人物馆 was built in October 2009 to present 900 heroes of the New Fourth Army and the Central China Resistance Base&#160;华中抗日根据地. The memorial hall also holds temporary exhibitions, current ones including the History of the Central China Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party&#160;中共中央华中局历史陈列展，Heroic Yancheng&#160;浴血奋战英雄盐城&#160;and the Exhibition of the New Fourth Army Fighting against Corruption 新四军廉政建设展.The statue of the Reorganized New Fourth Army Headquarters is represented by a sculpture in the image of a young New Fourth Army solider on the horse. The Taishan Temple, where the headquarter of the reorganized New Fourth Army was originally located, was listed as a national key heritage site 全国重点文化保护单位 in 2006.The&#160;official website of the Memorial&#160;provides abundant and up-to-date information, highlighting the functions of the memorial for&#160;education, propaganda, and historical research. It offers the web user a taste of the memorial with its&#160;video materials, introducing the Memorial and showing how exhibition materials can be used for propaganda and education, such as in a performance “Yancheng 1941” (2011). The website also offers the function of online comments&#160;网上留言, even though it is not possible to see others’ comments and therefore impossible to evaluate its effectiveness.&#160;The Memorial was declared as one of the national patriotism education bases&#160;全国爱国主义教育基地&#160;in 1997 and listed as one of the one hundred Red Tourism destinations 百家红色旅游景区 in 2004.&#160;Bibliography:Benton, Gregor (1999):&#160;New Fourth Army: Communist Resistance Along the Yangtze and the Huai, 1938-1941. Berkeley: University of California Press.Department of Culture and Tourism of Jiangsu province 江苏省文化和旅游厅, official website:  http://www.jstour.com/scenic/483.htmlMemorial of the New Fourth Army&#160;新四军纪念馆: &#160;official website: http://www.n4a.org.cn/plus/list.php?tid=12List of pictureFeatured Image: Source: Memorial of the New Fourth Army&#160;新四军纪念馆 official website:&#160;http://www.n4a.org.cn/plus/list.php?tid=12.