02653nam 22004813a 450 99647575480331620230711194531.00-520-38533-0https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.117(CKB)5670000000358063(ScCtBLL)e52388a9-3ac3-44bc-86fd-7bfc9139b461(PPN)261949659(EXLCZ)99567000000035806320220603i20222021 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAccidental Holy Land The Communist Revolution in Northwest China /Joseph W. Esherick1 ed.[s.l.] :University of California Press,2022.1 online resource0-520-38532-2 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 / AsiaHistory335.43/45Esherick Joseph W242448ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK996475754803316Accidental Holy Land2901116UNISA