Labor and the Chinese Revolution: Class Strategies and Contradictions of Chinese Communism, 1928-1948

by S. Bernard Thomas

In the two-decade period from 1928 to 1948, the proletarian themes and issues underlying the Chinese Communist Party's ideological utterances were shrouded in rhetoric designed, perhaps, as much to disguise as to chart actual class strategies. Rhetoric notwithstanding, a careful analysis of such pronouncements is vitally important in following and evaluating the party's changing lines during this key revolutionary period. The function of the "proletariat"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472038419
• ISBN13: 9780472038411
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"