Author: Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009075748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party from the years 1927 to 1934. Describing the transformation of the party as 'the forging of Leninism', Joseph Fewsmith offers a clear analysis of the development of the party. Drawing on supporting statements of party leaders and a wealth of historical material, he demonstrates how the Chinese Communist Party reshaped itself to become far more violent, more hierarchical, and more militarized during this time. He highlights the role of local educated youth in organizing the Chinese revolution, arguing that it was these local organizations, rather than Mao, who introduced Marxism into the countryside. Fewsmith presents a vivid story of local social history and conflict between Mao's revolutionaries and local Communists.
Author: Cheng Chen
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047615
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Zhengyuan Fu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521442282
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy. The author interprets the communist takeover of 1949 not as a revolution but as a continuation of the imperial tradition. The book shows how Mao Zedong revitalised this autocratic tradition along five lines: the use of ideology for political control; concentration of power in the hands of a few; state power over all aspects of life; law as a tool wielded by the ruler, who is himself above the law; and the subjection of the individual to the state. Using a statist approach, the book argues that in China political action of the state has been the single most important factor in determining socio-economic change.
Author: Orville Schell
Publisher:
ISBN: 0679643478
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781009070157
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages :
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"When one drives into the Jinggang Mountains (also known as the Jinggangshan), it is impossible to escape the celebration of revolutionary history and the role of Mao Zedong. As one is told repeatedly, you are entering the "cradle of the revolution." Maoping, once the mountain lair of Yuan Wencai, the bandit leader who would join forces with Mao, is now a thriving town of about 4,500. There are now several memorial halls recalling the heroic deeds of the Red Army. Re-enactors, sent by work units, for patriotic education place wreaths before pictures of revolutionary heroes. Although some visitors seem to be having too much fun to be absorbing the lessons of the revolutionary past, perhaps most come away with an even more unquestioning acceptance of the official historiography that places Mao and his Jinggangshan redoubt at the center of a revolutionary history that has, after many twists and turns, given birth to a wealthy and powerful contemporary China, a country very different from the poor, war-torn, and exploited China of a century ago"--
Author: Christian Sorace
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760462497
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.
Author: Bozhong Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479200
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 641
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The first English translation of Li Bozhong's pioneering study of GDP in early modern China.
Author: Timothy Cheek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.
Author: Felix Wemheuer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107123704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.
