Revolution in the Highlands China's Jinggangshan Base Area,9780742528789

Revolution in the Highlands China's Jinggangshan Base Area

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ISBN13: 9780742528789
ISBN10: 0742528782
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-06
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This extensively researched and elegantly written study offers a fine-grained analysis of the origins of the Chinese communist revolution in the countryside. Building on decades of research in newly available sources and multiple trips to Jiangxi, Stephen

Table of Contents

Maps
vii
Abbreviations ix
Chinese Weights and Measures xi
Preface xiii
Editors' Introduction by Joseph W. Esherick and Elizabeth J. Perry xvii
Author's Introduction 1(10)
Part I: Jinggangshan before Mao
11(134)
Jinggangshan Society and Economy
23(30)
Bandits and Brotherhoods
53(28)
Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai
81(28)
The Early Jinggangshan Revolutionary Movement
109(36)
Part II: The Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base Area
145(186)
Establishing the Jinggangshan Base
155(34)
``All That Is Needed Is to Go in Circles'': Contending for the Base
189(40)
Socioeconomic Reform
229(36)
The Midyear Crisis
265(32)
Autumn and the Fall of the Base
297(34)
Part III: Jinggangshan after Mao
331(64)
Jinggangshan after Mao
335(34)
Crisis and Rupture
369(26)
Conclusion 395(20)
Appendix: Abbreviations Used in the Notes 415(2)
Glossary of Chinese Terms 417(8)
Selected Bibliography 425(12)
Index 437(12)
About the Author 449

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