Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 (French Edition) - Softcover

Lucien Bianco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804708274 ISBN 13: 9780804708272

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1971

Synopsis

The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese Communists' rise in three short decades from obscurity to power. The author seeks above all to relate the events of this tumultuous period to certain tentative generalizations about the nature and course of the revolution. He is concerned less with the May Fourth Movement as such, for example, than with the revolution's intellectual origins, less with the Communist party's early political history than with the place of Marxist ideology in that history, less with the military aspects of the war of 1937-45 than with the influence of nationalism in the growing success of the Communists. An important part of the book deals with the various governmental and non-governmental attempt at reform during the Kuomintang era, which the author shows were too little too late to dam the swelling flood of revolution. The conclusion evaluates the crucial role of imperialism, the peasantry, and the army in the Chinese "formula" for revolution and re-examines the relationship between Marxism and the Chinese Revolution.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucien Bianco is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0804708274
• ISBN 13: 9780804708272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224