Joseph Fewsmith, "Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927–1934" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Do You Think That Am Mows Ultimately Took Over in the Countryside?
You argue in the book that am mows ultimately successful taking over in the countryside was only possible because first there were local efforts, such as you described earlier in dongoo. How do we understand the kind of, why was it that the local had to come first? I think that's really good question, which i've pondered. And i think what it is is that 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 a what social order that was in that area.
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