New Perspectives on the Chinese Revolution

Autorentext
Tony Saich, Hans van de Ven, David E. Apter, Stephen C. Averill, Gregor Benton, Lucien Bianco, Timothy Cheek

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
These essays present fresh insights into the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from its founding in 1920 to its assumption of state power in 1949. They draw upon considerable archival resources which have recently become available.

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

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