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UNINA9910797900003321 |
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Zhang Baohui |
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Revolutions as organizational change : the Communist Party and peasant communities in South China, 1926-1934 / / Baohui Zhang |
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Hong Kong, [China] : , : HKU Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource : map (black and white) |
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Note generali |
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Texas at Austin, 1994 issued under title: Communal organization and agrarian revolutions in south China. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- 1. Contrasting patterns of two agrarian revolutions -- 2. Contending theories of agrarian revolution -- 3. Community as an organization -- 4. Patrilineally organized Jiangxi peasant communities -- 5. Paramilitarily organized Hunan peasant communities -- 6. Communal organizations and agrarian revolutions -- 7. An organizational theory of agrarian revolutions. |
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By comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Change offers a new organizational perspective on peasant revolutions. Utilizing newly available historical materials in the People's Republic of China in the reform era, it challenges the established view that the great Chinese revolution of the twentieth century was a revolution "made" by the Chinese Communist Party (the CCP). The book begins with a puzzle presented by the two peasant revolutions. While outside mobilization by the CCP was largely absent in Hunan, peasant revolutionary behaviors were spontaneous and radical. In Jiangxi, however, despite intense mobilization by the CCP, peasants remained passive and conservative. This study seeks to resolve the puzzle by examining the roles of communal cooperative institutions in the making of peasant revolutions. Historically, peasant communities in many parts of the world were regulated by powerful cooperative institutions to confront |
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environmental challenges. This book argues that different communal organizational principles affect peasants' perceptions of the legitimacy of their communal orders. Agrarian rebellions can be caused by peasants' attempts to restructure unjust and illegitimate communal organizational orders, while legitimate communal organizational orders can powerfully constrain the mobilization by outside revolutionary agents such as the CCP. |
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UNINA9910437645603321 |
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Galambos Imre |
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Dunhuang Manuscript Culture : End of the First Millennium / / Imre Galambos |
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De Gruyter, 2020 |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (VIII, 290 p.) |
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Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; 22 |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese |
Dunhuang (China) History |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Multiple-text Manuscripts -- 2 Manuscripts Written by Students -- 3 Writing from Left to Right -- 4 Circulars and Names -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index -- About the Author |
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“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery |
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comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads. |
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