A study of the roots of revolution in the Chinese province of Henan, this book describes in detail more than two decades (1925 to 1949) of the efforts of the Communist Party to build mass support for revolution. These were decades of social and political crisis, beginning with the May 30th Movement, exacerbated by the Japanese invasion in 1937, and culminating in the Communist victory of 1949. Looking for historical continuities and changes, the book traces the Communist movement's trajectory from the cities to the ...
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A study of the roots of revolution in the Chinese province of Henan, this book describes in detail more than two decades (1925 to 1949) of the efforts of the Communist Party to build mass support for revolution. These were decades of social and political crisis, beginning with the May 30th Movement, exacerbated by the Japanese invasion in 1937, and culminating in the Communist victory of 1949. Looking for historical continuities and changes, the book traces the Communist movement's trajectory from the cities to the countryside and back to the urban centers, in the process testing the major social science paradigms of peasant-based revolution. The author studies the interaction in Henan between the Communist revolutionaries and various groups that constituted the social base of the revolution - workers, religious sectarians, rural elites, student intellectuals, the military, and, above all, the peasantry. He closely studies the behavior of these groups and explains the social and structural forces that facilitated or constrained the Communist movement. He also shows how Communist mobilization tactics changed to accommodate such varied settings as the war zone, the mountains, and the floodplain. The author concludes that the key to the Communists' victory lay in their ability to maneuver their way to political power, their skillful use of nationalist sentiment, and their community and reform programs that ultimately won over the peasant masses. Thus, he sees the Chinese Communist movement as a dual revolutionary process of power politics and social revolution.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Presumed first edition, 1994, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 477pp., not illustrated. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with toning.
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Textual maps. Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, vii, 477 pp. "A study of the roots of revolution in the Chinese province of Henan, this book describes in detail more than two decades (1925 to 1949) of efforts by the Communist party to build mass support for revolution. It is the first study of its kind to be based on internal party documents only recently opened to scholars. The author studies the interaction in Henan between the Communist revolutionaries and various groups that constituted the social base of the revolution-workers, religious sectarians, rural elites, student intellectuals, the military, and, above all, the peasantry. "-Publisher's description.
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