Peasants Without the Party: Grass-Roots Movements in Twentieth-Century China

by Lucien Bianco

Book Overview

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

The leading specialist on China's twentieth century peasant resistance reexamines, in bold and original ways, the question: Was the Chinese peasantry a revolutionary force? Where most scholarly attention has focused on Communist-led peasant movements,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563248409
• ISBN13: 9781563248405
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"