Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition Volume 24

by Elizabeth J. Perry

Book Overview

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful "cultural positioning" and "cultural patronage," on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271904
• ISBN13: 9780520271906
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"