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New perspectives on the Chinese Communist revolution

Title: New perspectives on the Chinese Communist revolution / edited by Tony Saich and Hans J. van de Ven ; David E. Apter [and others].
Publication: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1995], ©1995.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	JQ1519.A5 N42 1995	Off-site

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xxii, 414 pages; 24 cm

Summary

New Perspectives on the Chinese Communist Revolution brings together the work of a new, international generation of students of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) history. Exploiting new sources made available in China in the 1980s, some chapters in this book bring new events and areas into the study of the CCP. Other chapters provide detailed analyses on the basis of new evidence of long-standing problems in the history of the CCP, such as the rise of Mao Zedong.
Yet others are significant because they offer new explanatory frameworks for understanding CCP history, such as the importance of Yanan as symbolic capital. New issues are brought up, such as the role of women, internal CCP terror, the use of opium sales to sustain the Yanan economy, and the great difficulty of controlling mass peasant movements once mobilized.
The most important contribution of the volume is to show that the old explanations of the CCP's success - peasant support, organizational strength, the supply of administrative services - are incomplete and do not account for the diverse and heterogeneous nature of the CCP and the great difficulties it had in building up mass support. This volume makes clear that the question of the CCP's success remains one of the most elusive but also most important that historians of China face today.

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Note

Papers from a conference sponsored by Sinological Institute, Leiden University and International Institute of Social History, held January 8-12, 1990 in Leiden and Amsterdam.
"An East gate book."

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Contents

1. The Emergence of the Text-Centered Party / Hans J. van de Ven -- 2. The Politics of Gender in the Making of the Party / Christina Gilmartin -- 3. What Is Wrong with Li Dazhao? / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- 4. The Origins of the Futian Incident / Stephen C. Averill -- 5. Under Arms and Umbrellas: Perspectives on Chinese Communism in Defeat / Gregor Benton -- 6. Fits and Starts: The Chinese Communist Party in Rural Hebei, 1921-1936 / Kathleen Hartford -- 7. Peasant Responses to CCP Mobilization Policies, 1937-1945 / Lucien Bianco -- 8. Discourse as Power: Yanan and the Chinese Revolution / David E. Apter -- 9. The Honorable Vocation: Intellectual Service in CCP Propaganda Institutions in Jin-Cha-Ji, 1937-1945 / Timothy Cheek -- 10. The Blooming Poppy under the Red Sun: The Yanan Way and the Opium Trade / Chen Yung-fa -- 11. Writing or Rewriting History? The Construction of the Maoist Resolution on Party History / Tony Saich --
12. From a Leninist to a Charismatic Party: The CCP's Changing Leadership, 1937-1945 / Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun -- 13. Conclusion / John Dunn.

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94026985

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Columbia University Libraries