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In February 1935, in a small town in south China, the Kuomintang arrested Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He was executed four months later. Close to the end of his incarceration, in little doubt as to the nature of his impending fate, Qu spent five days writing Superfluous Words, his frank and uncompromising prison memoirs.

This is the first complete English version of this important historical document, a translation and commentary that sheds light on the diverse interpretations and the strange history of this troubling and deeply moving work. In doing so, it provides an intriguing record of China at a time of change within the Communist Party and a moving ...

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In February 1935, in a small town in south China, the Kuomintang arrested Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He was executed four months later. Close to the end of his incarceration, in little doubt as to the nature of his impending fate, Qu spent five days writing Superfluous Words, his frank and uncompromising prison memoirs.

This is the first complete English version of this important historical document, a translation and commentary that sheds light on the diverse interpretations and the strange history of this troubling and deeply moving work. In doing so, it provides an intriguing record of China at a time of change within the Communist Party and a moving testimony to a life cut tragically short.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781740761208
  • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The
  • Publication date: 6/28/2006
  • Pages: 230
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction     xiii
Notes on the Translation     xvii
The Life and Some Times of Qu Qiubai     1
Early Years     1
Further Study and the Beginning of a Career     11
Russia and the CCP     16
Return to China: Work and Marriage     21
Qu's Rise to the Top of the CCP     33
Political Eclipse and the Second Stay in Moscow     39
Return to China and the Cultural Front     45
The Final Year     51
Incarceration and Execution     54
Epilogue - The Subsequent Fate of Those Connected To Qu Qiubai     61
Superfluous Words, Qu Qiubai, and the Twentieth Century     65
Qu Qiubai and Superfluous Words     65
A Superfluous Title     69
A Troubled Mind     74
What is Superfluous Words?     76
Qu Qiubai, Superfluous Words and the CCP since the 1930s     84
From Qu's Death to the Early 1960s     85
The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)     93
Rehabilitation - From the Late-1970s to the Mid-1980s     99
Contemporary Criticism of Qu     107
Reading Superfluous Words     112
Personal Tragedy     112
Qu Qiubai and the CCP ofthe 1920s and 1930s     118
Superfluous Words and Twentieth-Century History     127
Superfluous Words     139
Contents     139
Why Speak? - In Lieu of Preface     140
'Historical Misunderstanding'     141
Fragile Dual Personality     147
Marxism and Me     151
Blind-Adventuring and the Li Lisan Line     157
'Man of Letters'     162
Farewell     168
Appendices
The Authenticity of Superfluous Words     173
People, Organisations, and Terms     183
Bibliography     205
Index     223

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