Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China: Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region

Kamal Sheel

Published by Princeton University Press 1989

Peasant Society and Marxist Intellectuals in China

Fang Zhimin and the Origin of a Revolutionary Movement in the Xinjiang Region

Kamal Sheel

Volume 1015 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860425

Overview
Contents

About this book

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 historical roots of the early twentieth-century agrarian crisis that led to a large-scale revolution in the late 1920s, one of the most successful peasant movements organized by the Chinese Communists. A fresh analysis emerges of the remarkable Marxist intellectual Fang Zhimin, who used his deeply entrenched rural connections to organize the movement through a creative synthesis of traditional folk concepts with modern Marxist thought. This history begins with the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and proceeds to document the rapid disintegration of the small peasant economy under the pressures of world economics, a "state in crisis," and a qualitatively different landed upper class. It discusses exploitation, protest, and rural uprisings in the context of the "crisis of paternalism," marked by a progressive deterioration in the social relationships in rural areas. Integrating this investigation of rural upheaval with recent social science theories on peasant movements, the study ultimately explores the growth of the Xinjiang revolutionary movement.

Originally published in 1989.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Map Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xviii
Chapter One. The Xinjiang Region Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter Two. Impact of the Taiping Rebellion on Rural Areas in the Xinjiang Region Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter Three. New Pressures on Small Rural Cultivators: Imperialism, the State, and the Small-Peasant Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Chapter Four. The Landed Upper Class and the Crisis of Paternalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Chapter Five. Exploitation, Protests, and Uprisings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter Six. Fang Zhimin: The Rise of a Revolutionary Peasant Leader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Chapter Seven. The United Front in Jiangxi: Urban Forces and the Organization of the Peasant Association Movement, 1924—1927 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter Eight. From Peasant Movement to Communist Revolution: Revolutionary Intellectuals and Peasants in the Xinjiang Region Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Chapter Nine. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255

(Deutsch)