Ralph A Thaxton
Biographic Data
| ID | 732397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph A Thaxton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph A |
| FAMILY NAME | Thaxton |
| SIGNATURE | THAXTON R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Juan Wang’s review of Force and Contention in Contemporary China
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Force and Contention in Contemporary China
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Re…
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed th…
Mao's Crusade
Salt of the Earth
Examines the political and economic origins of the October revolution in China in 1949. The text is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and collective protest activities helped shape the nature and course of the Chinese revolution in rural areas. Focusing on the Party's relationship with locally esteemed non-Communist leaders, the author shows that the Party's role is best understood in terms of its intimate connec…
State making and state terror
Land Rent, Peasant Migration, and Political Power in Yao Cun, 1911-1937
In April of 1980 I was received by the Henan Province History Research Institute of the Henan Province Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to begin the first systematic oral political history project on peasant revolution in modern China. The focus of this project is on the problems of livelihood faced by the peasants of Lin county and several other counties in the pre-Liberation period, roughly 1911-49. In May I began an investigation of the hist…
The peasants of Yaocun
This paper shows that peasants in China, as elsewhere, are themselves a vital source on history and politics, and that they are able to help us recapture the unstudied moments of rebellion and revolution in pre‐Liberation years. The first part examines the process of peasant impoverishment and migration in one North China village, and then places peasant efforts to cope with loss of family security in thecontext of an important national level pol…
Peasants, Capitalism, and Revolution
On Peasant Revolution and National Resistance
A longstanding thesis on the Chinese revolution is that the peasants embraced the Communist movement because the brutalization by the invading Japanese Army aroused the village people, making it possible for the Communist Party to organize them and to appeal to their nationalist aspirations. A theoretical exploration of peasant mobilization and revolutionary war in the T'aihang Mountain-North China Plain revolutionary base suggests different reas…
The World Turned Downside Up
Tenants in Revolution The Tenacity of Traditional Morality
This essay presents a slice of a larger theoretical interpretation (Thaxton, 1975) of peasant revolution in China. It employs eclectic and empirical methods to probe and posit the origins and growth of participation by tenants in the rural revolution which burst forth in the grain-growing regions of Nortlh China from 19 11 to 1949. It draws on a vertical, patron-client model of political change to understand the erosion of elite legitimacy and ut…
Some Critical Comments on Peasant Revolts and Revolutionary Politics in China
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Modernization and counter-revolution in Thailand
Thailand is now the linchpin in America’s Asia. As revolutionaries in Indochina continue to force a reduction of U.S. ground troops in Asia and as Washington’s commitment to Taiwan weakens, Thailand assumes increasing strategic importance for current American counterrevolutionary operations in continental Asia. This development extends a general trend which began in the early 1950s
On Peasant Revolution and National Resistance
A longstanding thesis on the Chinese revolution is that the peasants embraced the Communist movement because the brutalization by the invading Japanese Army aroused the village people, making it possible for the Communist Party to organize them and to appeal to their nationalist aspirations. A theoretical exploration of peasant mobilization and revolutionary war in the T'aihang Mountain-North China Plain revolutionary base suggests different reas…
Tenants in Revolution The Tenacity of Traditional Morality
This essay presents a slice of a larger theoretical interpretation (Thaxton, 1975) of peasant revolution in China. It employs eclectic and empirical methods to probe and posit the origins and growth of participation by tenants in the rural revolution which burst forth in the grain-growing regions of Nortlh China from 19 11 to 1949. It draws on a vertical, patron-client model of political change to understand the erosion of elite legitimacy and ut…
The World Turned Downside Up
Land Rent, Peasant Migration, and Political Power in Yao Cun, 1911-1937
In April of 1980 I was received by the Henan Province History Research Institute of the Henan Province Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to begin the first systematic oral political history project on peasant revolution in modern China. The focus of this project is on the problems of livelihood faced by the peasants of Lin county and several other counties in the pre-Liberation period, roughly 1911-49. In May I began an investigation of the hist…
Peasants, Capitalism, and Revolution
Some Critical Comments on Peasant Revolts and Revolutionary Politics in China
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Modernization and counter-revolution in Thailand
Thailand is now the linchpin in America’s Asia. As revolutionaries in Indochina continue to force a reduction of U.S. ground troops in Asia and as Washington’s commitment to Taiwan weakens, Thailand assumes increasing strategic importance for current American counterrevolutionary operations in continental Asia. This development extends a general trend which began in the early 1950s
Modernization and counter-revolution in Thailand
Thailand is now the linchpin in America’s Asia. As revolutionaries in Indochina continue to force a reduction of U.S. ground troops in Asia and as Washington’s commitment to Taiwan weakens, Thailand assumes increasing strategic importance for current American counterrevolutionary operations in continental Asia. This development extends a general trend which began in the early 1950s
Some Critical Comments on Peasant Revolts and Revolutionary Politics in China
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tenants in Revolution The Tenacity of Traditional Morality
This essay presents a slice of a larger theoretical interpretation (Thaxton, 1975) of peasant revolution in China. It employs eclectic and empirical methods to probe and posit the origins and growth of participation by tenants in the rural revolution which burst forth in the grain-growing regions of Nortlh China from 19 11 to 1949. It draws on a vertical, patron-client model of political change to understand the erosion of elite legitimacy and ut…
On Peasant Revolution and National Resistance
A longstanding thesis on the Chinese revolution is that the peasants embraced the Communist movement because the brutalization by the invading Japanese Army aroused the village people, making it possible for the Communist Party to organize them and to appeal to their nationalist aspirations. A theoretical exploration of peasant mobilization and revolutionary war in the T'aihang Mountain-North China Plain revolutionary base suggests different reas…
The World Turned Downside Up
Peasants, Capitalism, and Revolution
The peasants of Yaocun
This paper shows that peasants in China, as elsewhere, are themselves a vital source on history and politics, and that they are able to help us recapture the unstudied moments of rebellion and revolution in pre‐Liberation years. The first part examines the process of peasant impoverishment and migration in one North China village, and then places peasant efforts to cope with loss of family security in thecontext of an important national level pol…
Land Rent, Peasant Migration, and Political Power in Yao Cun, 1911-1937
In April of 1980 I was received by the Henan Province History Research Institute of the Henan Province Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to begin the first systematic oral political history project on peasant revolution in modern China. The focus of this project is on the problems of livelihood faced by the peasants of Lin county and several other counties in the pre-Liberation period, roughly 1911-49. In May I began an investigation of the hist…
State making and state terror
Salt of the Earth
Examines the political and economic origins of the October revolution in China in 1949. The text is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and collective protest activities helped shape the nature and course of the Chinese revolution in rural areas. Focusing on the Party's relationship with locally esteemed non-Communist leaders, the author shows that the Party's role is best understood in terms of its intimate connec…
Mao's Crusade
Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
This book documents how China's rural people remember the great famine of Maoist rule, which proved to be the worst famine in modern world history. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., sheds new light on how China's socialist rulers drove rural dwellers to hunger and starvation, on how powerless villagers formed resistance to the corruption and coercion of collectivization, and on how their hidden and contentious acts, both individual and concerted, allowed th…
Force and Contention in Contemporary China
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Re…
Response to Juan Wang’s review of Force and Contention in Contemporary China
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political science (14 works) · Law (13 works) · China (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Law (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works)