China’s ascent to the ranks of the world’s second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed,
The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the d
The leading specialist on China's twentieth century peasant resistance reexamines, in bold and original ways, the question: Was the Chinese peasantry a revolutionary force? Where most scholarly attent
This book, a condensed translation of the prize- winning Jacqueries et revolution dans la Chine du XXe siecle, focuses on “spontaneous” rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. Yet i
