02995nam 22006013a 450 991058360080332120250516000839.097805203853370520385330https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.117(CKB)5670000000358063(ScCtBLL)e52388a9-3ac3-44bc-86fd-7bfc9139b461(DE-B1597)627800(OCoLC)1296692752(DE-B1597)9780520385337(PPN)261949659(MiAaPQ)EBC31594265(Au-PeEL)EBL31594265(Perlego)4432579(oapen)doab74966(EXLCZ)99567000000035806320220603i20222021 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAccidental Holy Land The Communist Revolution in Northwest China /Joseph W. Esherick1 ed.University of California Press2022[s.l.] :University of California Press,2022.1 online resource9780520385320 0520385322 Preface -- Frontier foundations for revolution -- Shaanxi's early Communist movement -- Bandits and Bolsheviks -- The rocky road to revolution -- Accidental holy land -- Dawn of the Yan'an era -- Conclusion.A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary research and numerous field trips to the region, Joseph W. Esherick's book examines the origins of the Communist revolution in Northwest China, from the political, social, and demographic changes of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), to the intellectual ferment of the early Republic, the guerrilla movement of the 1930s, and the replacement of the local revolutionary leadership after Mao and the Center arrived in 1935. In Accidental Holy Land, Esherick compels us to consider the Chinese Revolution not as some inevitable peasant response to poverty and oppression, but as the contingent product of local, national, and international events in a constantly changing milieu.Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & SocialismbisacshHistory / Asia / ChinabisacshHistory / AsiabisacshHistoryShan Gan Ning Bian Qu (China)HistoryPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-communism & SocialismHistory / Asia / ChinaHistory / AsiaHistory.335.43/45Esherick Joseph242448ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910583600803321Accidental Holy Land2901116UNINA