Resistance and Revolution in China: The Communists and the Second United Front

Resistance and Revolution in China: The Communists and the Second United Front examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secured victory by reframing both its strategy and its relationship to China’s urban politics and to international conflict. Covering the years 1934 to 1943, the study challenges the CCP’s own official history, which portrays Mao’s rural “peasant war” strategy as continuous and unbroken from the Kiangsi period through Japan’s defeat. Instead, the book argues that the...