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Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China

By Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
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By Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.
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On October 1, 1949, a rural-based insurgency demolished the Nationalist government of Chiang-kai Shek and brought the Chinese Communists to national power. How did the Chinese Communists gain their mandate to rule the countryside? In this pathbreaking study, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., provides a fresh and strikingly original interpretation of the political and economic origins of the October revolution.

Salt of the Earth is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and...

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