Provincial PassagesProvincial Passages
Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism
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Current format, eBook, 1996, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsRevealing 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. Using sources previously closed to scholars, including recently discovered documents in the archives of the First United Front, Yeh shows the urban Communist movement as an intellectual revolution in social consciousness.
The Maoist legacy has often been associated with the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Yeh's historical reconstruction of a pre-Mao, non-organizational dimension of Chinese socialism is thus of vital interest to those seeking to redefine the place of the Communist Party in a post-Mao political order.
Yeh (history, Chinese studies, UC-Berkeley) presents a new view of the Chinese Communist Party's origins, tracing Chinese Communism's roots to the culturally conservative heartland and offering an account of the transformation of May Fourth radical youth into pioneering Communist intellectuals from a social and cultural history perspective. She intertwines the life stories of various founding members of the Party, drawing on previously unavailable material. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
"This work initiates a broad reevaluation of the origins of the Chinese Communist Party . . . and demonstrates the importance of earlier history to the understanding of twentieth-century events."--Don C. Price, University of California, Davis
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. Using sources previously closed to scholars, including recently discovered documents in the archives of the First United Front, Yeh shows the urban Communist movement as an intellectual revolution in social consciousness.
The Maoist legacy has often been associated with the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Yeh's historical reconstruction of a pre-Mao, non-organizational dimension of Chinese socialism is thus of vital interest to those seeking to redefine the place of the Communist Party in a post-Mao political order.
Yeh (history, Chinese studies, UC-Berkeley) presents a new view of the Chinese Communist Party's origins, tracing Chinese Communism's roots to the culturally conservative heartland and offering an account of the transformation of May Fourth radical youth into pioneering Communist intellectuals from a social and cultural history perspective. She intertwines the life stories of various founding members of the Party, drawing on previously unavailable material. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
"This work initiates a broad reevaluation of the origins of the Chinese Communist Party . . . and demonstrates the importance of earlier history to the understanding of twentieth-century events."--Don C. Price, University of California, Davis
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