Title: Provincial passages
First published: 1996
Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartland. And for the first time, her book shows the transformation of May Fourth radical youth into pioneering Communist intellectuals from a social and cultural history perspective.

Yeh's study provides a unique description of the spatial dimensions of China's transition into modernity and vividly evokes the changing landscapes, historical circumstances, and personalities involved. The human dimension of this transformation is captured through the biography of Shi Cuntong (1899-1970), a student from the Neo-Confucian county of Jinhua who became a founding member of the Party.

Yeh's in-depth analysis of the dynamics of change is combined with a compelling narrative of the moral dilemmas in the lives of Shi Cuntong and other early leaders.
Subjects: History, Intellectuals, Communism, SOCIAL SCIENCE, May Fourth Movement (China : 1919) fast (OCoLC)fst01353671, Popular Culture, Anthropology, Communisme, Cultural, Moderniteit, Intellectuelen, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Communism, china, China, history, may fourth movement, 1919, Intellectuals, china
Places: China, Zhejiang Sheng, Zhejiang Sheng (China)
Time periods: May Fourth Movement, 1919
LC classification: DS793.C3 Y44 1996