Understanding the Chinese Communist Revolution : New Interpretations from the PRC / edited by Fangchun Li, Brian DeMare, Mark Czellér.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

by Fangchun Li, Brian DeMare, edited, author.

Contributor:

Li, Fangchun, editor.

DeMare, Brian, editor.

Czellér, Mark, editor.

Series:

Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China ; 8.

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China ; 8

Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Studies.

History.

East Asia.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

New Interpretations from the PRC

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Chinese Communist Revolution is one of the most important events in modern global history and has attracted significant scholarly attention both in and outside of China. This volume includes nine articles translated from Open Times (Kaifang shidai), one of China’s leading academic journals. Topics include land reform, revolutionary theory, and the Chinese Civil War. Collectively, these articles introduce readers to key trends in PRC scholarship on the Chinese Revolution.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyrights Informations

Contents

Figures and Tables

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Editors

Introduction

1 Local Responses to the Land Revolution

1 Introduction

2 Formation of Local Cadres and the Initiation of the Movement of Rent and Interest Reduction

2.1 The Formation of Local Cadres

2.2 Local CCP Branches and Armies

2.3 Intervention by Outside Cadres and Rent and Interest Reduction

3 Land Redistribution Movement and Attack on Ji'an under the Control of the Red Fourth Army

3.1 Intervention by Outside Military Cadres and Impediments from the "Rich Peasant Line"

3.2 The February 7th Meeting and Forcible Land Redistribution Dominated by the Red Fourth Army

2.3 Analysis of the Relationship between Mobilizations for Attacking Cities and Land Redistribution

4 The Difficulties of Land-based Mobilization: an Analysis of Land Redistribution Movement in Ji'an and Jishui

4.1 Mistakes and Repetitions in Land Redistribution

4.2 Who Benefited from the Land Redistribution Movement?

4.3 Peasant Mobilization after Land Redistribution: Tensions between Local Cadres and the Red Army

5 Conclusion

2 Local Cadres, Red Armed Forces and Organizational Forms of the CCP in Soviet Areas

2 The Donggu Revolutionary Base Area and the Yanfu Revolutionary Base Area: Identical Twins Different in Nature

2.1 Donggu and Yanfu: "Twins" in the Revolution in Ji'an

2.2 The "Disappearance" of the Yanfu Revolutionary Base Area

3 Revolutionary Foundations in Donggu and Yanfu

3.1 Geography

3.2 Ethnic Groups

3.3 Party Organs

3.4 Armed Forces

4 Internal Organizational Forms of Armed Forces in Donggu and Yanfu

4.1 Establishment and Reorganization of Red Armed Forces in Donggu

4.1.1 Establishment.

4.1.2 Reorganization

4.2 Establishment and Reorganization of Red Armed Forces in Yanfu

4.2.1 Establishment

4.2.2 Reorganization

5 The Organizational Relationship between Armed Forces in Donggu and Yanfu and Outside Cadres

5.1 The Relationship between Base Area Armed Forces and CCP Special Committees

5.1.1 Li Wenlin's Tenure (July to September, 1928)

5.1.2 Feng Ren's Tenure (April to October, 1929)

5.1.3 Liu Shiqi's Tenure (October 1929 to February 1930)

5.2 The Central Committee and the Provincial Committee's Relationship with Local Armed Forces in Revolutionary Base Areas during Their Reorganization

5.3 Relationship between Armed Forces in Revolutionary Base Areas and Main Red Army Forces

6 Conclusion and Discussion

6.1 A New Understanding of "Local Cadres" and "Outside Cadres"

6.2 Different Organizational Forms of Local Red Armed Forces

6.2.1 Internal Cohesion of Local Armed Forces

6.2.2 The Organizational Relationship between Local Armed Forces and Outside Forces

3 Production as a Means of Discipline: a Discursive Analysis Centred around Narratives

2 Competition and Labeling

3 Institutional Reconstruction in Collectivized Production

4 The Dual Discipline of "Production and Rectification"

4 "Stepping Outside the Family" and "Consolidating the Family"

2 Women's Liberation and Rural Society: Changes in the CCP's Policy for Women

3 Stepping Outside the Family and Consolidating the Family

3.1 Stepping Outside the Family

3.1.1 Organizing Women into Spinning and Weaving: from Public Cooperatives to Private Cooperatives, Spinning and Weaving Groups

3.1.2 Commending Labor Heroines and Reforming Female "Idlers"

3.2 Consolidating the Family

3.2.1 From Freedom of Marriage (婚姻 由) to Marriage Autonomy (婚姻 主).

3.2.2 From Family Harmony under the United Front to Building the New Family

3.3 Between Stepping Outside the Family and Consolidating the Family: Women's Liberation, Labor and Family Reshaped

3.3.1 Synergies between Stepping Outside the Family and Consolidating the Family

3.3.2 Tensions between Stepping Outside the Family and Consolidating the Family

4 Conclusions

5 Exploring the Internal Logic of the Chinese Communist Revolution

1 Inheritance and Development of the Concept of "knowing is difficult, acting is easy" by the Philosophy of Action

2 The Rise of New Social Sciences and Transformation in "Understanding of China"

3 The Divide between Materialism and the Philosophy of Action and Its Political Implications

6 The Changes in and Reasons for the CCP's Land Policy

1 After the War, the CCP Central Committee Did Not Plan to Change Its Policy of Rent and Interest Reduction

2 Was the May Fourth Directive's Emphasis on Showing Consideration for Landlords or Supporting the Peasants?

3 Why Did the CCP Central Committee Have to Accommodate the Peasants' Demands?

4 Why Did the CCP Central Committee Believe That the "Current Situation Is Similar to That during the Great Revolution"?

5 Did the CCP Central Committee Persuade Regional CCP Committees, or Vice-Versa?

6 Mao Zedong, Champion of Peasants' Demand for Land, Shifts Course Again

7 Policy of the CCP Central Committee on Compulsory Purchase with Government Bonds

8 The Outbreak of the Civil War and Yet Another Turn in the CCP Central Committee's Land Policy

9 Conclusion

7 From a "Silent Revolution" to "Stirring Up Revolution"

1 Literature Review

2 Rent and Interest Reduction: a Silent Revolution

3 Land Reform: a Dramatic Revolution

4 Mobilization for Conscription

5 Conclusion.

8 Pilot Villages of Land Reform and Land Reform in Pilot Villages

2 Work Teams in Villages

3 Reorganization of Poor Peasants and Farmhands

4 Preparations for Party Rectification

5 Open Party Rectification

6 Conclusion

9 What Is It to "Explain Antiquity"?: On the Classics, History, and Dao of the Chinese Revolution

2 A Rupture between "classics" and "history": the Tide of "doubting antiquity" in Chinese Revolutionary History

3 The Limits of "doubting antiquity", through the Example of the "land question"

4 Moving towards "explaining antiquity": Seeking the "dao" of the Chinese Revolution

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004759428

OCLC:

1595736321

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004759428 DOI