Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-1978: Revolution and Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781032185101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 252 str.

Marc Blecher; David S. G. Goodman; Yingjie Guo

Opis

Examining the interaction between the Communist Party of China [CCP] and specific social categories (including peasants, workers, the middle classes and the dominant class), with a focus on class and class discourse, this volume analyses the CCP’s impact on social change in China between 1921-1978.

Spis treści

1. The CCP’s Shifting Class Discourse: The Objectivity, Subjectivity and Utility of Class 2. Learning to Live with Social Change: The Communist Party of China, Class and Mobilisation 3. Between Revolution and Reform: Class, Class Struggle, and Land Redistribution 4. The Communist Party of China, Working Class and Social Change, 1920-1949 5. Class as a Political Tool in Rural China: The Middle Peasant in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 6. Radical Politics and the apotheosis of the working class, 1949-1978 7. Emergence without settling: the trajectory of the Chinese middle class from 1949 to the 1980s 8. The Dominant Class in a Changing Polity: Transformation and Institutionalisation