Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China

by Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.

Book Overview

On October 1, 1949, a rural-based insurgency demolished the Nationalist government of Chiang-kai Shek and brought the Chinese Communists to national power. How did the Chinese Communists gain their mandate to rule the countryside? In this pathbreaking study, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., provides a fresh and strikingly original interpretation of the political and economic origins of the October revolution. Salt of the Earth is based on direct interviews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520358112
• ISBN13: 9780520358119
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"