Provincial passages : culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communism / Wen-hsin Yeh and Wen-hsin Yeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeh, Wen-Hsin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--China--Zhejiang Sheng.

Communism.

Intellectuals--China--Zhejiang Sheng.

Intellectuals.

Zhejiang Sheng (China)--History.

Zhejiang Sheng (China).

China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 403 p. ) maps ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Revealing 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction

PART 1

1. ZHEJIANG

2. THE IDEA OF A MIDDLE COUNTY

3. PROVINCIAL BACKWATERS

PART 2

4. FIRST NORMAL

5. A PROVINCIAL BOYHOOD

6. THE ASSOCIATION

7. THE MAY FOURTH MOVEMENT IN HANGZHOU

8. "DECRY FILIAL PIETY!"

PART 3

9. UPROOTED PROVINCIALS

10. SHANGHAI SPRING

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-380) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520916326

0520916328

9780585104324

0585104328

OCLC:

1224279091