A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927 (Chinese Worlds) - Hardcover

Smith, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824823141 ISBN 13: 9780824823146

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000

Synopsis

A study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the CCP's relations to the city's students and teachers, women, entrepreneurs, secret societies, and its workers, and examines the efforts to transform the CCP into a "Leninist" party, exploring relations between intellectuals and workers, men and women, Chinese and Russians, within the party. The book culminates in a detailed analysis of the three armed uprisings that led to the CCP's briefly taking power in March 1927, before being crushed by troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek.

About this title

Review:

'By bringing together external forces and local factors, and providing a balanced evaluation of their relative influence, Smith has made a major contribution to the historiography of this important phase in the history of communism in China.' - Asian Studies Review

About the Author:

Steve Smith is Professor of History at the University of Essex in the UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0824823141
• ISBN 13: 9780824823146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288