Revolution in the Highlands: China's Jinggangshan Base Area

by Stephen C. Averill, Elizabeth J. Perry, Joseph W. Esherick

This extensively researched and elegantly written study offers a fine-grained analysis of the origins of the Chinese communist revolution in the countryside. Building on decades of research in newly available sources and multiple trips to Jiangxi, Stephen Averill provides a definitive local perspective on the rise of a revolution that reshaped China and the world. A rich work of social history, it goes beyond conventional Mao-centered narrative to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742528782
• ISBN13: 9780742528789
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"