Blood Road: Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China

by R. Keith Schoppa

Book Overview

Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi--revolutionary, landlord, politician, poet, journalist, educator, feminist, and early member of both the Communist and Nationalist parties.

The search for Shen's killer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520213866
• ISBN13: 9780520213869
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"