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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The Chinese Communist Party and the Local Bandits
These are people who, when they leave dongo and develop these outside connections at school, they become radicalized. Were in the wake of the may fourth movement, the may thirtieth movement, of the northern expedition. And so they are converted to the idea that what china really needs is a revolution land reform. They will then, because their classmates, all get along very well witheah other, which is something that other places didn't have. A family related to the local bandits gang gives them some muscle.
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