China in Revolution: Yenan Way Revisited

by Mark Selden

Overview

Originally published in the early 1970s, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China has proved to be one of the most significant and enduring books published in the field. In this new critical edition of that seminal work, Mark Selden revisits the central themes therein and reconsiders them in light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563245558
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1995
Series:	Socialism and Social Movements Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

1: Shensi Province: The Revolutionary Setting; 2: Rebels and Revolutionaries in the Northwest; 3: From Land Revolution to United Front: The Shen-Kan-Ning Soviet, 1935–1936; 4: The New Democracy in the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region, 1937–1941; 5: Crisis and the Search for a New Order; 6: The Yenan Way; Conclusion; Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

Selden (history, State U. of New York at Binghamton locates the revolution in the context of anticolonial national liberation movements and proposes that features of the Yenan Way of social change took root in base areas behind Japanese lines, in this expanded critical edition, originally published in 1971 as The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. The author reassesses central issues posed in the original study, and reevaluates the resistance from the perspectives of human freedom, community, and rural development. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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