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1 online resource (xxii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of the Chinese Communist Party -- Map of China Today -- Introduction: Telling the Story of the Chinese Communist Party -- Chapter 1 -- 1920s -- 1 The 1920s: A Dutchman's Fantasy: Henricus Sneevliet's United Front for the Chinese Communist Party -- A Resistant CCP -- An Important Trip South -- Reporting Out: Resistance in Shanghai, Acceptance in Moscow -- Forging Compliance: The CCP Joins the KMT -- Doubts in Moscow: Is a Mass Party Possible in China? -- Third Party Congress: Battle Won, but Not the War -- The United Front: An Enduring Legacy -- Bibliographical Note -- Chapter 2 -- 1930s -- 2 The 1930s: Wang Ming's Wuhan Moment: The Brief Flowering of Popular-Front Communism -- Popular Front -- Wuhan's Spring -- Wuhan Abandoned -- Dead Man Walking -- Chapter 3 -- 1940s -- 3 The 1940s: Wang Shiwei's Rectification: Intellectuals and the Party in Yan'an -- Yan'an, 1942 -- Rectification: Mao's Way -- Revolutionary Artists' Agenda -- Wang Shiwei's ''Wild Lilies'' -- Diary of Struggle -- Wang's ''Anti-Party Gang of Five'' -- Chapter 4 -- 1950s -- 4 The 1950s: From Fallen Star to Red Star: Shangguan Yunzhu -- Introduction -- From a Small-Town Married Girl to a Shanghai Celebrity -- The Spouse of a Corrupt Element -- A Teachable Role Model -- Chairman Mao in Our Midst -- The Fall of a Red Star -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- 1960s -- 5 The 1960s: Wang Guangmei and Peach Garden Experience -- Introduction -- Background -- Peach Garden Experience -- Tsinghua University -- Denouement -- Conclusions -- Additional References -- Chapter 6 -- 1970s -- 6 The 1970s: The Death of Mao and Life of Chairman Gonzalo -- Chapter 7 -- 1980s -- 7 The 1980s: Zhao Ziyang and the Voices of Reform -- The Making of a Party Secretary |
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Calls for Democracy in Guangzhou in the Final Year of the Cultural Revolution -- Economic Reformer -- Political Reform and the Road to Tiananmen -- A Contested Legacy -- Chapter 8 -- 1990s -- 8 The 1990s: Wang Yuanhua: A Party Intellectual Reflects -- Chapter 9 -- 2000s -- 9 The 2000s: Jiang Zemin and the Naughty Aughties -- Ruling from behind the Screen -- Hu Jintao and the ''Most Democratic Body in the World'' -- The Golden Age of Chinese Liberalism under Hu Jintao, and Jiang Zemin -- The Olympic Games and the Global Financial Crisis -- The Ten Grave Problems of the Hu-Wen Era -- Toad Worship in Xi Jinping's New Era -- Chapter 10 -- 2010s -- 10 The 2010s: Guo Meimei: The Story of a Young Netizen Portends a Political Throwback -- Guo Meimei and the ''Red Cross Commercial Society'' -- Weiguan: Online protest culture -- Guo Meimei's Fall as a Lack of Public Trust -- The Heyday of Online Public Opinion -- Wenming: Disciplining the Online Public -- The Managed Worlds of WeChat Circles -- Afterword: The Party and the World -- Appendix -- Historical Context: Useful General Histories -- Party Writings in Translation -- Studies by Topic and Period (per Chapters of This Book) -- 1920s -- 1930s -- 1940s -- 1950s -- 1960s -- 1970s -- 1980s -- 1990s -- 2000s -- 2010s -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its existence, these essays reflect on the Party's relentless pursuit of power and extraordinary adaptability through the transformative decades since 1921. Demonstrating that the history of the Chinese Communist Party is not one story but many stories, readers learn about paths not taken, the role of chance, ideas and persons silenced, hopes both lost and fulfilled. This vivid mosaic of lives and voices draws together one hundred years of modern Chinese history - and illuminates possible paths for China's future |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Zhongguo gong chan dang -- History
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Zhongguo gong chan dang -- Biography
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| SUBJECT |
Zhongguo gong chan dang fast |
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Communists -- China -- Biography
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Communists
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cheek, Timothy, editor.
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Mühlhahn, Klaus, editor
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Van de Ven, Hans J., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108904186 |
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1108904181 |
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1108912958 |
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9781108912952 |
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