Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's China,by David E. Apter and Tony Saich |
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| Authors: | Raymond F Wylie Peter Zarrow |
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| Institution: | 1. lnternational Relations and Director of the International Center for Democracy and Social Change at Lehigh University , Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;2. , School of History at the University of New South Wales, U.K. |
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| Abstract: | AbstractAs early as Edgar Snow's pioneering Red Star over China (1937), Yan'an was seen as the “defining moment” of the Chinese Communists' rise to power. Beginning in 1935, Mao Zedong set his personal imprint on the party as he successfully guided it from the disaster of the Long March to the “Congress of Victors” in 1945. This set the stage for the final showdown with Chiang Kai-shek and the hapless Nationalists in the civil war of 1946-49. With the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, the experiences of Yan'an became the blueprint for the reconstruction of China along the lines first laid out in that remote and impoverished town in the northeast. |
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