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Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927D1937
Patricia Stranahan
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Description for Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927D1937
paperback. Series: State & Society in East Asia. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; JPFC; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
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 a flexible organizing strategy attuned to the changing local environment. By redesigning and integrating itself into the city's political, economic and cultural life, the Shanghai Party organization not only endured but became an essential component in the city's anti-Japanese patriotic movement.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
State & Society in East Asia
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847687237
SKU
V9780847687237
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99-15
About Patricia Stranahan
Patricia Stranahan is professor of history and director of the Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh.
Reviews for Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927D1937
A remarkable book... Impressive research, evidence, argumentation, and organization. Her book is the definitive work on Communists in Shanghai during the Nanjing Decade.
Roger B. Jeans, Washington and Lee University
Journal of Asian and African Studies
This work forms an important corrective to rural-centered understandings of the CCP's history. This is an important book that will establish the significance of the urban element of the CCP's rise to power. Stranahan's work shows that much effort was always expanded on this.
Hans Van De Ven
China Quarterly, March 99
A remarkable study and a model of how to research and write history. Stranahan keeps human beings and their actions front and center. . . . I applaud her effort to bring the history of the Shanghai Communist Party out of the shadows and to render a more balanced account of Chinese Communist history. . . . [I]mpressive research, evidence, argumentation, and organization. . . . Her book is the definitive work on Communists in Shanghai during the Nanjing Decade.
Journal of Asian and African Studies
This remarkable study rescues the history of the Shanghai Communist Party underground from the shadows into which it has been relegated by the orthodox, Mao-centered history of the revolution. Stranahan has mined a wealth of archival and newly published material in demonstrating how the underground survived the 'white terror,D>' even though Communist Party policies often placed members in the gravest danger of exposure and arrest. Stranahan reveals how the small but significant group, even though cut off from the Party Center, re-emerged as a force with the National Salvation Movement of 1935. The work provides an important balance to current scholarship which emphasizes only rural revolution.
Parks M. Coble Strananahan's book opens the doors to new insights about the history of the CCP. The resulting work enhances our understanding of the complexity of CCP survival in the 1930's. The work is detailed and specialized.
Norma C. Noonan, Augsburg College
Heldref Publications
A rare double treat: a superb scholarly work—the first comprehensive history in the English language of a crucial phase in China's communist revolution—that is bound to impress a specialist readership, as well as a true thriller that will engross readers with a weakness for tales of political intrigue, heroism, betrayal, and survival in an extremely hostile environment.
Michael Schoenhals, Lund University The greatest impediment to historical research on the Chinese Communist Party is the difficulty of getting one's hands on source materials. Patricia Stranahan has written a painstaking work which overcomes this impediment handily and offers a stimulating analysis of the circumstances surrounding the Shanghai Communist Party during the Nanjing decade.
Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Kobe University
Journal of Asian Studies
The book is a timely and useful addition to studies of the Party and Shanghai.
The China Journal
Stranahan's description of Shanghai Communism during the Nankin decade certainly enriches our knowledge of the history of Chinese Communism.
Journal Of Oriental Studies
Roger B. Jeans, Washington and Lee University
Journal of Asian and African Studies
This work forms an important corrective to rural-centered understandings of the CCP's history. This is an important book that will establish the significance of the urban element of the CCP's rise to power. Stranahan's work shows that much effort was always expanded on this.
Hans Van De Ven
China Quarterly, March 99
A remarkable study and a model of how to research and write history. Stranahan keeps human beings and their actions front and center. . . . I applaud her effort to bring the history of the Shanghai Communist Party out of the shadows and to render a more balanced account of Chinese Communist history. . . . [I]mpressive research, evidence, argumentation, and organization. . . . Her book is the definitive work on Communists in Shanghai during the Nanjing Decade.
Journal of Asian and African Studies
This remarkable study rescues the history of the Shanghai Communist Party underground from the shadows into which it has been relegated by the orthodox, Mao-centered history of the revolution. Stranahan has mined a wealth of archival and newly published material in demonstrating how the underground survived the 'white terror,D>' even though Communist Party policies often placed members in the gravest danger of exposure and arrest. Stranahan reveals how the small but significant group, even though cut off from the Party Center, re-emerged as a force with the National Salvation Movement of 1935. The work provides an important balance to current scholarship which emphasizes only rural revolution.
Parks M. Coble Strananahan's book opens the doors to new insights about the history of the CCP. The resulting work enhances our understanding of the complexity of CCP survival in the 1930's. The work is detailed and specialized.
Norma C. Noonan, Augsburg College
Heldref Publications
A rare double treat: a superb scholarly work—the first comprehensive history in the English language of a crucial phase in China's communist revolution—that is bound to impress a specialist readership, as well as a true thriller that will engross readers with a weakness for tales of political intrigue, heroism, betrayal, and survival in an extremely hostile environment.
Michael Schoenhals, Lund University The greatest impediment to historical research on the Chinese Communist Party is the difficulty of getting one's hands on source materials. Patricia Stranahan has written a painstaking work which overcomes this impediment handily and offers a stimulating analysis of the circumstances surrounding the Shanghai Communist Party during the Nanjing decade.
Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Kobe University
Journal of Asian Studies
The book is a timely and useful addition to studies of the Party and Shanghai.
The China Journal
Stranahan's description of Shanghai Communism during the Nankin decade certainly enriches our knowledge of the history of Chinese Communism.
Journal Of Oriental Studies