The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928

Roy Hofheinz, Jr.

Published by Harvard University Press 1977

The Broken Wave

The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928

Roy Hofheinz, Jr.

Volume 90 in the series Harvard East Asian Series

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418578

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This book is a sophisticated and deeply researched volume on Mao Tse-tung's early leadership and on the formative years of the Chinese Communist Peasant movement. It has been axiomatic in Asian studies that knowledge of the early years of Chinese communism would throw the most light on modern happenings. In this landmark volume, Hofheinz provides the much-needed map for understanding.

Hofheinz shows how the rural revolution began, dissects with exquisite care the mentalities of the first leaders, and assesses the early gropings of peasant revolutionaries toward class struggle. He explains why Mao and others came to believe that the huge rural population was the most powerful force in China and that warfare against any visible enemies constituted progress for the Communist cause. Yet the first Chinese Communists failed miserably both as members of the Kuomintang coalition and on their own.

The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. Mao and his followers shaped every decision in later years to avoid the errors of the past. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
TABLES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
PART ONE: Strategy
1 THE BIRTH OF THE RURAL STRATEGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 MAO TSE-TUNG AS A RURAL STRATEGIST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
PART TWO: Organization
3 STAFFING THE REVOLUTION: THE KUOMINTANG PEASANT BUREAUCRACY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4 EDUCATION FOR REVOLUTION: THE PEASANT MOVEMENT INSTITUTE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
5 ORGANIZING THE MASSES: THE PEASANT ASSOCIATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6 THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND: EXPLANATIONS OF SUCCESS AND FAILURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
PART THREE Practice
7 ORIGINS OF A REVOLUTION: P'ENG P AI IN HAIFENG, 1922-1924 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8 THE POLITICS OF DEPENDENCY: KWANGNING, 1924-1925 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9 THE FACE OF THE ENEMY: HUA COUNTY, 1926 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
10 THE BIRTH OF A PEOPLE'S WAR: HAIFENG, 1927 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
11 THE DEATH OF A REVOLUTION: HAIFENG, 1928 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
12 THE LEGACY OF CHINA'S PEASANT MOVEMENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
APPENDIXES, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
APPENDIX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1977
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 355
Illustrations
- Tables: 12
Keywords: HISTORY / General; HISTORY / Revolutionary; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism; Communism -- China.; Peasant uprisings -- China.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674418578

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1977
ISBN: 9780674418561