Mobilizing the masses : building revolution in Henan / Odoric Y.K. Wou.

A study of the roots of revolution in the Chinese province of Henan, this book describes in detail more than two decades (1925 to 1949) of the efforts of the Communist Party to build mass support for revolution. These were decades of social and political crisis, beginning with the May 30th Movement,...

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Main Author: Wou, Odoric Y. K., 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.
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505 0 |a Early Mobilization. 1. Mobilizing the Proletarians: The May 30th Movement. 2. Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears. 3. Penetrating Settled Peasant Communities: The Case of Eyuwan. 4. Peasant Mentality and Ideological Constraints: The Case of Eyuwan -- Wartime Mobilization. 5. Coalition Politics and Movement Revitalization. 6. War and Rural Mobilization: The Rivereast Floodplain. 7. Revolutionary Reconstruction: The Huaibei Lake Area. 8. Structural Constraints: The Taihang Mountains. 9. Mobilizing to Take Over the Cities. 
520 |a A study of the roots of revolution in the Chinese province of Henan, this book describes in detail more than two decades (1925 to 1949) of the efforts of the Communist Party to build mass support for revolution. These were decades of social and political crisis, beginning with the May 30th Movement, exacerbated by the Japanese invasion in 1937, and culminating in the Communist victory of 1949. Looking for historical continuities and changes, the book traces the Communist movement's trajectory from the cities to the countryside and back to the urban centers, in the process testing the major social science paradigms of peasant-based revolution. The author studies the interaction in Henan between the Communist revolutionaries and various groups that constituted the social base of the revolution - workers, religious sectarians, rural elites, student intellectuals, the military, and, above all, the peasantry. He closely studies the behavior of these groups and explains the social and structural forces that facilitated or constrained the Communist movement. He also shows how Communist mobilization tactics changed to accommodate such varied settings as the war zone, the mountains, and the floodplain. The author concludes that the key to the Communists' victory lay in their ability to maneuver their way to political power, their skillful use of nationalist sentiment, and their community and reform programs that ultimately won over the peasant masses. Thus, he sees the Chinese Communist movement as a dual revolutionary process of power politics and social revolution. 
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