summer of 1945, prior to their surrender later that year. Some historians have argued that Xiang was the victim of the indecision of Mao Zedong. Mao's supporters argued that Xiang's misunderstanding of the potential threats posed by the Nationalists, along with his own ambitions, led to his demise. (See Gregor Benton's "Mountain Fires" and "New Fourth Army" for thorough accounts of all this. Halliday and Chang's new biography of Mao, "Mao: The Unknown Story," contains a very different account of the New Fourth Army Incident in which they suggest Mao engineered the massacre in order to eliminate Xiang, whom he perceived as a rival. This is an unlikely argument, extending Benton's argument that Mao's negligence was partially to blame for the massacre, though the authors do not cite significant sources beyond Benton's to defend their contribution.) External links Book review dealing in part with Xiang Ying 1890s births 1941 deaths Assassinated Chinese people Burials in Nanjing Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hubei Delegates to the 3rd National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 4th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 5th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Labor relations in China Members of the 4th Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 6th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Military personnel of the Second Sino-Japanese War People of the Chinese Civil War Politicians from Wuhan Republic of China politicians from Hubei