The Chinese revolution in the 1920s : between triumph and disaster / edited by Mechthild Leutner. [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leutner, Mechthild.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--History--Warlord period, 1916-1928.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based mainly on Russian and Chinese archival sources that have become available only since the early 1990s, the authors of this collection explore the main aspects of the Chinese Revolution in the crucial period of the 1920s, such as the United Front policy, the development of communism, the Guomindang perspective, institutional issues and social movements. The various approaches and interpretative methods employed by the contributors from seven countries have resulted in a collection of articles representing four very different and until now almost independent discourses: the European, the Am

Contents:

Cover; The Chinese Revolution in the 1920s; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Transcription and abbreviations; Introduction; Part I United Front policy; 1 Patterns of propaganda organization in the National-revolutionary Movement in China in the 1920s; 2 Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927; 3 The Comintern and the Guomindang: a clash of strategy in China's Revolution; 4 A ""Bloc Within"" or a ""Bloc Without""? Controversies on the CCP's attitude towards the Guomindang before and after 20 March 1926

5 Moscow's policy towards the National-revolutionary Movement in China: the military aspect, 1923-1927Part II The role of Chiang Kaishek; 6 Perspectives on Chiang Kaishek's early thought from his unpublished diary; 7 A reassessment of Chiang Kaishek and the policy of alliance with the Soviet Union, 1923-1927; 8 Chiang Kaishek between revolution and militarism, 1926/27; Part III Institutional issues; 9 The Chinese National Revolution and the Eighth ECCI Plenum: exploring the role of the Chinese delegate ""Chugunov""; 10 The Far Eastern Bureau of the ECCI in China, 1929-1931

11 The Anti-imperialist League and the Chinese Revolution12 A regular Chinese voice from Berlin to Moscow: the China-information of Liao Huanxing, 1924-1927; Part IV Social movements; 13 The realpolitik and legacy of labor activism and popular mobilization in 1920s Greater Canton; 14 Moscow and the second and third armed uprisings in Shanghai, 1927; 15 Inscribing gender codes: male-feminists in the early CCP; 16 Two versions of the ""peasant-agrarian question"" in China: Comintern vs. Guomindang

17 Peasants, peasant uprisings and agrarian revolution, 1927-1931: an analysis of internal Comintern materials and contemporary reports18 Anti-imperialism at grassroots: Christianity and the Chinese Revolution in Northeast Guangdong, 1919-1930; Part V Research project; 19 The Joint Project on the RCP(B), the Comintern and China: initial results; lndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-87317-1

1-138-86344-0

1-315-02954-5

1-136-87310-4

9781315029542

OCLC:

864414418