Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927d1937

by Patricia Stranahan

Book Overview

This pathbreaking study offers the first in-depth view of the urban revolution during the pivotal Nanjing Decade, refuting the notion that cities played only a supporting role in Mao Zedong's brilliant conquest of the countryside. Focusing on China's largest and most cosmopolitan city, Stranahan examines how the Party organization in Shanghai_severed from the central leadership and pursued by Guomindang and foreign authorities alike_survived through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847687236
• ISBN13: 9780847687237
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"