The politics of China's peasant revolution

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ID8414736
AuthorsElizabeth J Perry (0000-0002-7943-2097, corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume10
Issue3
Pages44-47
Publication date1978-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14672715.1978.10409103
OpenAlexW2325930300
LanguageEN
References cited13

Efforts to explain the success of the Chinese Communist revolution have preoccupied more than a few American historians and political scientists in recent years. Most of these scholars, following the trail blazed by George Taylor's The Struggle for North China, have focused attention on the War of Resistance period (1937–1945) in search of the factors responsible for the phenomenal growth in Communist power. Chalmers Johnson, with his famous thesis of “peasant nationalism,” emphasizes the importance of the Japanese invasion for rural mobilization in China. Mark Selden, by contrast, identifies the Communist Party's positive wartime policies—the “Yenan Way”—as the key to revolutionary victory. Carl Dorris, while agreeing with much of Selden's explanation, locates the source of these successful wartime policies not in the capital of Yenan, but in the guerrilla bases of North China, especially Jin-Cha-Ji

China · Communism · Economic history · Nationalism · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Socialism · Sociology · Victory · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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