|
|
Asian Studies Book Services |
|||
|
|
||||
About us contact details Catalogue
|
This
book analyses the power struggles within the leadership of the Chinese
Communist Party between 1931, when the CCP left Shanghai for the Jiangxi
soviet, and 1945, by which time Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai had emerged as
senior CCP leaders (and thereafter ruled the Party until their deaths in
1976). Based on new Chinese sources, the study challenges
long-established views that Mao Zedong became CCP leader during the Long
March (1934-35) and that by 1935 the CCP was independent of the
Comintern in Moscow. The result is a critique not only of official
Chinese historiography but also of Western (esp. US) scholarship that
all future histories of the rise of the PRC will need to take into
account. Published
by NIAS Press |
