North China at War - The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937–1945

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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Joseph W. Esherick is professor emeritus of modern Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the holder of the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies. His books include Modern China: The Story of a Revolution, co-authored with Orville Schell; Lost Chance in China: The World War II Despatches of John S. Service; Reform and Revolution in China: The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei; and The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. His awards include the John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association, the Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, and the 1989 Berkeley Prize from the University of California Press.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Feng Chongyi, Chongyi Feng, Chongyi Feng, David G Goodman, David S G Goodman, David S. G. Goodman
• Collaboration: Ch'ung-I Feng (Editeur)
• Edition: Rowman & Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 24.05.2000
• EAN: 9780847699384
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9938-4
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Poids: 445 g
• Thèmes: World Social Change; Asia/Pacific/Perspectives; Asia/Pacific/Perspectives; World Social Change
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; China, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-left political ideologies and movements, Asian History, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General