The Canton Peasant Movement Training Ins ti tu te

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ID6007800
AuthorsGerald W Berkley (University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume1
Issue2
Pages161-179
Publication date1975-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/009770047500100203
OpenAlexW2062349500
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

The Canton Peasant Movement Training Institute (Nongmin yundong jiangxisuo) was one of several training centers which were established in Canton soon after the official formation of the First United Front at the First National Congress of the Kuomintang in January 1924. These schools, including the Kuomintang Political Training Class (Zhongguo guomindang zhengzhi jiangxi ban), the Kuomintang Women's Movement Training Institute (Zhongguo guomindang funii yundong jiangxisuo), and others were established for the purpose of enabling the participants to create symbols of nationalism, antiimperialism, anti-warlordism, and class struggle, and to use them effectively to arouse the energies of large numbers of (Wilbur, 1968: 26-27). The value of training centers of this nature was not lost on the Chinese Communists. Between the collapse of the United Front in mid-1927 and China's liberation in 1949 several schools for training cadres were set up by the Party including some twenty full-time institutes operating in Yenan alone by 1942. What makes the Peasant Institute stand out among these various training centers is (1) that it was the first such school in

China · Communism · Front (military · Geography · Nationalism · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Training (meteorology · United front · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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