Choosing Revolution
Subtitle: CHINESE WOMEN SOLDIERS ON THE LONG MARCH
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252026720
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; War & defence operations; Women's studies; 20th century; China - History - 20th Century; Women In The Military; History - General History; History: World; China; Asia - China; Revolutionary; Women's Studies - History; History / China; Military - Other; Military Science; History; Long March, 1934-1935; Women soldiers
First sentence: JIAN XIANREN and her younger sister, Jian Xianfo, joined the Red Army as a means of self-protection.
Description: "Some two thousand women participated in the Long March, but their experience of this seminal event in the history of Communist China is rarely represented. In Choosing Revolution, Helen Praeger Young presents her interviews with twenty-two veterans of the Red Army's legendary 6,000-mile "retreat to victory" before the advancing Nationalist Army.".

"Young's Choosing Revolution reveals the complex interplay between women's experiences and the official, almost mythic version of the Long March. In addition to their riveting stories of the march itself, Young's subjects reveal much about what it meant in China to grow up female and, in many cases, poor during the first decades of the twentieth century.

In speaking about the work they did and how they adapted to the demands of being a soldier, these women - both educated individuals who were well-known leaders and illiterate peasants - reveal the Long March as only one of many segments of the revolutionary paths they chose."--BOOK JACKET.