Blood Road - The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China

About the author

R. Keith Schoppa is Professor of History and Chair of both the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program at Valparaiso University. He is the author of Chinese Elites and Political Change (1982) and Xiang Lake:Nine Centuries of Chinese Life (1989).

Summary

This text is a mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi.

Product details

• Authors: R. Keith Schoppa
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.1998
• EAN: 9780520213869
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21386-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Terrorism, armed struggle, Social and cultural history, Asian History, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: historical, political and military, Political Assassinations