Provincial Passages - Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism

"This work initiates a broad reevaluation of the origins of the Chinese Communist Party . . . and demonstrates the importance of earlier history to the understanding of twentieth-century events."—Don C. Price, University of California, Davis

About the author

Wen-hsin Yeh is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937 (1990) and coeditor of Shanghai Sojourners (1993).

Summary

Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, this work presents a view of the Party's origins. It traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartland.

Product details

• Authors: W. Yeh, Wen-Hsin Yeh
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.1996
• EAN: 9780520200685
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20068-5
• No. of pages: 410
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; China, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism