Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism

by Wen-Hsin Yeh

Book Overview

Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartland. And for the first time, her book shows the transformation of May Fourth radical youth into pioneering Communist intellectuals from a social and cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520200683
• ISBN13: 9780520200685
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"