Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945

by Goodman, David S. G.

• ISBN13: 9780742508651
• ISBN10: 074250865X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This history provides the first book-length study and the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan. David S. G. Goodman explores revolution as process, arguing that the CCP was successful because of its management of revolutionary incrementalism. In particular, he examines the roles and interactions of urban intellectuals, teachers, and peasant small-holders as agents of change. Based on newly available documents and interviews, this meticulously researched work deepens our understanding of the social and political origins of the Chinese revolution by considering how both the rural population and the party adapted within that process.

Author Biography

David S. G. Goodman is director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Preface	ix
Chronology: The Taihang Base Area, 1937-1945	xix
Maps
Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region, 1945	xxv
Liaoxian (Zuoquan) County	xxvi
Wuxiang County	xxvii
Licheng County	xxviii
List of Abbreviations	xxix
Introduction: The Revolutionary Process	1	(44)
PART I: POLITICAL ORDER
Base Area and Border Region	45	(38)
Liaoxian: The Administrative Center	83	(22)
Wuxiang: Military Affairs and Mobilization	105	(22)
Licheng: Food and Factories	127	(24)
PART II: SOCIAL REFORM
The Revolutionary Imperative	151	(32)
Liaoxian: Land and Social Reform	183	(22)
Wuxiang: Radical Politics and Revolutionary Conflict	205	(28)
Licheng: Resistance and Rebellion	233	(22)
Conclusion: Revolution in Southeast Shanxi	255	(20)
Bibliography	275	(56)
Index	331	(14)
About the Author	345