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Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China: Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region
By (Author) Kamal Sheel
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Business and Management
335.434509512
Paperback
284
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
482g
Whereas most writing on the Communist Revolution in China has concentrated on the influence of intellectual leaders, this book examines the role of peasants in the upheaval, viewing them not as a malleable mass but as a dynamic social force interacting with the radical intelligentsia. Focusing on the Xinjiang region, Kamal Sheel traces the historic