Anyuan
Subtitle: mining China's revolutionary tradition
By: Elizabeth J. Perry
Series: Asia : local studies/global themes -- 24
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520271890; 9780520271906
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Communism; Coal miners; Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West); Social change; Revolutions; Economic conditions; Labor movement; Social conditions; Working class; History
Description: How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? This title suggests an answer that lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rehearsing Revolution; title: Teaching Revolution : The Strike of 1922; title: "China's Little Moscow"; title: From Mobilization to Militarization; title: Constructing a Revolutionary Tradition; title: Mao's Final Crusade : The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; title: "Reforming" the Revolutionary Tradition; title: Glossary.