Blood road : the mystery of Shen Dingyi in revolutionary China / R. Keith Schoppa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schoppa, R. Keith, 1943- author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shen, Dingyi, -1928.

Shen, Dingyi.

Revolutionaries--China--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

China--History--1912-1928.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) illustrations, maps, portrait.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1998.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi--revolutionary, landlord, politician, poet, journalist, educator, feminist, and early member of both the Communist and Nationalist parties. The search for Shen's killer details the contours of revolutionary change in different spatial contexts--metropolitan Shanghai, the provincial capital Hangzhou, and Shen's home village of Yaqian. Several interrelated themes emerge in this dramatic story of revolution: the nature of social identity, the role of social networks, the political import of place, and the centrality of process in historical explanation. It contributes significantly to a new understanding of Chinese revolutionary culture and the 1920s revolution in particular. But Blood Road remains at base a story of people linked in various relationships who were thrust, often without choice, into treacherous revolutionary currents that shaped, twisted, and destroyed their lives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter one. Death in Yaqian: August 28, 1928

Chapter two. One's native place: Hangzhou, 1916-1917

Chapter three. Awakening: a needle of light: Shanghai, 1919-1920

Chapter four. Rushing to calamity: Yaqian, 1921-1922

Chapter five. All fall down: Hangzhou and Yaqian, 1924-1925

Chapter six. The black star: Hangzhou and yaqian, 1925-1926

Chapter seven. A dangerous time: Hangzhou, 1927

Chapter eight. The representative of the masses: Yaqian, 1928

Chapter nine. Scenarios

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520921085

0520921089

9780585106045

0585106045

OCLC:

167227602