Description: Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China : Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region, Hardcover by Sheel, Kamal, ISBN 0691634211, ISBN-13 9780691634210, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Whereas most writing on the Communist Revolution in China has concentrated on the influence of intellectual leaders, this book examines the role of peasants in the upheaval, viewing them not as a malleable mass but as a dynamic social force interacting with the radical intelligentsia. Focusing on the Xinjiang region, Kamal Sheel traces the historical roots of the early twentieth-century agrarian crisis that led to a large-scale revolution in the late 1920s, one of the most successful peasant movements organized by the Chinese Communists. A fresh analysis emerges of the remarkable Marxist intellectual Fang Zhimin, who used his deeply entrenched rural connections to organize the movement through a creative synthesis of traditional folk concepts with modern Marxist thought. This history begins with the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and proceeds to document the rapid disintegration of the small peasant economy under the pressures of world economics, a "state in crisis," and a qualitatively different landed upper class. It discusses exploitation, protest, and rural uprisings in the context of the "crisis of paternalism," marked by a progressive deterioration in the social relationships in rural areas. Integrating this investigation of rural upheaval with recent social science theories on peasant movements, the study ultimately explores the growth of the Xinjiang revolutionary movement.
Originally published in 1989.
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Book Title: Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China : Fang Zhimin
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Publication Name: Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China : Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, General, Asia / China
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25 Oz
Author: Kamal Sheel
Item Length: 10.4 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Item Width: 7.3 in
Format: Hardcover
