North China at War: The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937-1945Chongyi Feng, David S. G. Goodman During the War of Resistance to Japan from 1937 to 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) grew from a marginalized political force on the geographical periphery of Chinese society to a position of national leadership. Explaining this transformation has long been a major point of contestation among scholars. This groundbreaking volume draws on newly available documentary sources to explore key facets of the partyOs move to power. Leading scholars from China and the West compare the varied experiences of the CCP_and its interactions with local society_in all the border regions and base areas of resistance to the Japanese invasion on the North China battlefront. Eschewing grand theory, the authors develop a Osocial ecology of revolutionO that traces the relationship between local conditions and patterns of social and political change. By individualizing the experience of the party by locality, period of the war, and stage in the development of mobilization and rule, the book highlights the importance of the military situation, CCP internal control mechanisms, peasant resistance, as well as the roles played by the Nationalist Party and intellectuals in the development of the border regions and base areas. |
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Page 230 - David SG Goodman is professor of international studies and director of the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution...
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Page 229 - Lecturer in China Studies at the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, and adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin.
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