Concentrating on a transitional epoch, 1927-1949, when China was at the crossroads of revolution, the contributors analyze the Kuomintang's inherent weaknesses as a revolutionary force and the Communists' success in the quest for new formulas to guide the modernization movement. Rejecting the suggestion that external factors determined the outcome of the Kuomintang-Communist conflict, they stress instead the more fundamental issues of the Chinese revolution, pointing to problems such as factionalism in Nanking, the weakness of the New Life Movement as an experiment in thought control and mass mobilization, the failure of land reform in Chekiang, and the ineffectiveness of the anti-Japanese boycott of 1931-1932. The regional power in Sinkiang and the rural problems in Chungking are also emphasized.
Edited by:
F. Gilbert Chan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367021191
ISBN 10: 0367021196
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 07 June 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Westview Replica Editions -- China at the Crossroads: Nationalists and Communists, 1927–1949 -- Introduction: China at the Crossroads, 1927–1949 -- The Nationalists, 1927–1937: A Case Study of Revolutionary Failure -- Factional Politics in Kuomintang China, 1928–1937: An Interpretation -- The New Life Movement before the Sino–Japanese Conflict: A Reflection of Kuomintang Limitations in Thought and Action -- Agrarian Reform in Nationalist China: The Case of Rent Reduction in Chekiang, 1927–1937 -- China's Vulnerability to Japanese Imperialism: The Anti-Japanese Boycott of 1931–1932 -- Sinking and Szechwan in the Era of Japanese Aggression -- Regionalism and Central Power: Sheng Shih-ts' ai in Sinkiang, 1933–1944 -- The Kuomintang and Rural China in the War of Resistance, 1937–1945 -- The Communists, 1927–1949: In Search of Revolutionary Models -- The Origins of Communist and Soviet Movements in China -- Chinese Communist Land Reform and Peasant Mobilization, 1946–1948