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Provincial Passages : Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism by Wen-hsin Yeh (1996, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520200683
ISBN-139780520200685
eBay Product ID (ePID)571714
Product Key Features
Number of Pages410 Pages
Publication NameProvincial Passages : Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Asia / General, General, Asia / China
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorWen-Hsin Yeh
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-038179
IllustratedYes
SynopsisRevealing 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.
LC Classification NumberDS793.C3Y44 1996
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