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Abstract The experience of women's movement in the base areas of the Communist forces centred on Yan'An during the war againstJapanese invaders is worth considering as a model of women's liberation under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. This paperconducts literature review and content analysis to identify numerous marriage issues at the time arising from the power struggles amongdifferent social groups that were from a rural origin and pursued party politics. While these groups participated in resolving marriageconflicts, they experimented with different ways for women to seek liberation. Ultimately, they arrived at the principle of "harmonyand struggle" in a "united family front" to guide women's liberation, treating women not as isolated individuals so as to overcome thelimitations of treating women as being one-sided. Through women's participation in production, women and men negotiated to balancedifferent interests of forces in and outside of households and to reconstruct more equitable family structures. Thus, the resolution ofmarriage issues during the Yan'An era demonstrates that class-based revolution offered a probable pathway, in both theory and practice,for the liberation of women,especially women at the bottom of society, in Revolutionary China.
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