Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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What's the Story of a Mouse in Dongo?
You argue that a mouse ultimately successful taking over in the countryside was only possible because first there were local efforts, such as you described earlier in dongo. I how do we understand the kind of, why was it that the local had to come first? You say people like lewen lynn and those around him, and local activists, they really took over their own local society. They're the ones who really broke down the clan based o what social order that was in that area. And so they broke down the old order created an incomplete new order.
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