Some two thousand women participated in the Long March. This book presents interviews with twenty-two veterans of the Red Army's legendary 6,000-mile 'retreat to victory' before the advancing Nationalist Army. It reveals the complex interplay between women's experiences and the official, almost mythic version of the Long March.
Some two thousand women participated in the Long March. This book presents interviews with twenty-two veterans of the Red Army's legendary 6,000-mile ...
Some 2,000 women participated in the Long March, but their experience of this seminal event in the history of Communist China is rarely represented. In Choosing Revolution, Helen Praeger Young presents her interviews with twenty-two veterans of the Red Army's legendary 6,000-mile "retreat to victory" before the advancing Nationalist Army.
Enormously rich in detail, Young's Choosing Revolution reveals the complex interplay between women's experiences and the official, almost mythic version of the Long March. In addition to their riveting stories of the march itself, Young's subjects reveal...
Some 2,000 women participated in the Long March, but their experience of this seminal event in the history of Communist China is rarely represented. I...
