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This groundbreaking volume draws on newly available documentary sources to explore key facets of the move to power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the War of Resistance to Japan from 1937 to 1945. Leading scholars from China and the West compare the varied experiences of the CCP_and its interactions with local society_in all the border regions and base areas of resistance to the Japanese invasion on the North China battlefront. Eschewing grand theory, the authors develop a Osocial ecology of revolutionO that traces the relationship between local conditions and patterns of social and political change.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Explaining Revolution Chapter 2 Getting Peasants Organized: Village Organizations and the Party-state in the Shaan Gan Ning Border Region, 1934-1945 Chapter 3 Revolution in a 'Feudal Fortress': Yangjiagou, Mizhi County, Shaanxi, 1937-1948 Chapter 4 Social Reform and Value Change in the Jin Cha Ji Anti-Japanese Border Region Chapter 5 Social and Political Change in the Villages of the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area Chapter 6 Resistance and Revolution, Religion and Rebellion: The Sixth Trigram Movement in Licheng, 1939-1942 Chapter 7 The Making of the Jin Sui Base Area: Peasants, Intellectuals, and Democratization Chapter 8 The Survival of the Shandong Base Area, 1937-1943: External Influences and Internal Conflicts Chapter 9 Comparative Perspectives: North and Central China in the Anti-Japanese Resistance
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By Feng Chongyi and David S. G. Goodman - Contributions by Gregor Benton; Elise A. DeVido; Joseph W. Esherick; David S. G. Goodman; Wei Hongyun; Pauline Keating and Tian Youru
Summary
This volume draws on documentary sources to explore key facets of the Chinese Communist Party's move to power from 1937-1945. Scholars compare experiences of the CCP and its interactions with society on the border and areas of resistance to the Japanese invasion of the North China battlefront.
