Chen Hansheng : China's last romantic revolutionary / Stephen R. MacKinnon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKinnon, Stephen R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chen, Hansheng, 1897-2004.

Chen, Hansheng.

Scholars--China--Biography.

Scholars.

Spies--China--Biography.

Spies.

China--Intellectual life--20th century.

China.

China--History--20th century.

China--Foreign relations--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographies

Physical Description:

xviii, 445 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

China's last romantic revolutionary

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2023]

Summary:

Chen Hansheng was not only a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, remembered for the village studies he organized by teams of researchers in the 1930s. He was also a political operative whose career as an underground and aboveground Communist activist spanned the twentieth century and the globe. This book draws on unique interviews, beginning in 1979, with Chen himself, his family and associates, along with an exhaustive examination of documents, writings, and archives, to build a rounded portrait of Chen, the man, and his world.

Contents:

Introduction

Elite roots

Study abroad

Baby professor and Peking University

The activist is born, 1925-1927

Chen Hansheng and the Chinese peasant

The other hat : political activism, 1929-1934

Tokyo and Moscow, 1934-1935

Institute of Pacific Relations, 1936-1939

Hong Kong and Industco, 1939-1942

Escape to Guilin and India, 1942-1946

Activism and scholarship on two fronts, 1946-1950

Bittersweet : PRC early years, 1951-1966

Surviving the Cultural Revolution with hope and despair, 1966-2004.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and index.

ISBN:

9789882372603

9882372600

OCLC:

1378179936