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Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary research and numerous field trips to the region, Joseph W. Esherick's book examines the origins of the Communist revolution in Northwest China, from the political, social, and demographic changes of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), to the intellectual ferment of the early Republic, the guerrilla movement of the 1930s, and the replacement of the local revolutionary leadership after Mao and the Center arrived in 1935. In Accidental Holy Land, Esherick compels us to consider the Chinese Revolution not as some inevitable peasant response to poverty and oppression, but as the contingent product of local, national, and international events in a constantly changing milieu.
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Keywords
- Asia
- Asian history
- Buenos Aires
- China
- Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- Cultural history
- History
- Humanities
- Late 19th and Early 20th centuries
- Marxism & Communism
- Political Ideologies
- Political Science
- Politics & government
- public space
- Regional & national history
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFC Far-left political ideologies and movements
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
- Urban History
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DOI: 10.1525/luminos.117web: http://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.117/
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