The Peasant Movement in Hunan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6008474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yokoyama Suguru (Hiroshima University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 204-238 |
| Publication date | 1975-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009770047500100205 |
| OpenAlex | W2126448301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 4 |
The peasant movement in during 1926-1927 is well known by scholars interested in modem China; it has been described in detail in Mao Tse-tung's famous article, on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan (1965: 23-59).1 Scholarly works on the subject, however, are few, although many works concerning the peasant movement in Kwangtung are available. This article is an attempt to study some aspects of the movement such as its background and origin and the peasants' political and economic demandsmatters to which Mao's Report paid little attention. I will be concerned mainly with two elements of the peasant movement in Hunan: the peasants' tendency to be spontaneous, and the relationship between this tendency and the policy of the prevailing political power toward the peasants. In Hunan, the peasant association movement, a modern type of peasant movement, started in 1923 under the leadership of a few Communists and rapidly spread over the province after the middle of 1926, when the. National Revolutionary Army occupied the province. By July 1927 membership in the peasant associations in amounted to over 4,500,000, about one-half the total membership of all the peasant associations in
Aesthetics · China · Movement (music · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2022 (40) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |