UID:
almahu_9949863644802882
Format:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520385337
Content:
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary research and numerous field trips to the region, Joseph W. Esherick's book examines the origins of the Communist revolution in Northwest China, from the political, social, and demographic changes of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), to the intellectual ferment of the early Republic, the guerrilla movement of the 1930s, and the replacement of the local revolutionary leadership after Mao and the Center arrived in 1935. In Accidental Holy Land, Esherick compels us to consider the Chinese Revolution not as some inevitable peasant response to poverty and oppression, but as the contingent product of local, national, and international events in a constantly changing milieu.
Note:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Frontier Foundations for Revolution -- 2. Shaanxi's Early Communist Movement -- 3. Bandits and Bolsheviks -- 4. The Rocky Road to Revolution -- 5. Accidental Holy Land -- 6. Dawn of the Yan'an Era -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Informants -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Esherick, Joseph W. Accidental Holy Land Berkeley : University of California Press,c2022 ISBN 9780520385320
Language:
English
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