Ideology and Organization in Communist China: Volume 3

by Franz Schurmann and Schurmann

Book Overview

In 1949 a powerful political-military movement, led by the Chinese Communist party, gained control of war-ravaged China, inheriting a disorganized administration and a society eroded by decades of revolution. Within a short time China was so radically transformed politically, economically, and socially that it appeared to have cut all links with the past. The instruments of that transformation were ideology and organization. Today, seventeen years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520306090
• ISBN13: 9780520306097
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, but Dry

In this book, Schurmann does an excellent job of explaining Chinese Communist ideology, as well as elucidating just how China was organized. Unfortunately, Schurmann's work is no longer a piece of analytical reporting, but a piece of history (since the work is over 30 years old). The only serious flaw in this well-researched, scholarly work is how slow the book reads. Schurmann often spends 20 pages explaining a single 'contradiction'' (that is, a thesis and an antithesis of Maoist dialectic). But... he does so very well.