Ideology and Organization in Communist China

by Franz Schurmann and Schurmann

Book Overview

In 1949 a powerful political-military movement, led by the Chinese Communist party, gained control of war-ravaged China, inheriting a disorganized administration and a society eroded by decades of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520011511
• ISBN13: 9780520011519
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 642 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, but Dry

In this book, Schurmann does an excellent job of explaining Chinese Communist ideology, as well as elucidating just how China was organized. Unfortunately, Schurmann's work is no longer a piece of analytical reporting, but a piece of history (since the work is over 30 years old). The only serious flaw in this well-researched, scholarly work is how slow the book reads. Schurmann often spends 20 pages explaining a single 'contradiction'' (that is, a thesis and an antithesis of Maoist dialectic). But... he does so very well.