LEADER 02818nam 22004331a 450 001 9910477331003321 005 19950207000000.0 010 $a9780472127917 010 $a0472127918 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.19970 035 $a(CKB)4100000011674325 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.19970 035 $a(ODN)ODN0006091202 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011674325 100 $a19880718d1985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Red Spears, 1916-1949 /$fby Tai Hsu?an-chih ; translated by Ronald Suleski ; introduction by Elizabeth Perry 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d1981. 215 $a1 online resource (xxxii, 150 pages) 225 1 $aMichigan Monographs in Chinese Studies ;$vno. 54 300 $aTranslation of: Hung-ch?iang-hui, 1916-1949. 311 08$a9780892640591 311 08$a0892640596 320 $aBibliography: pages 119-136. 330 $aBefore Tai Hsüan-chih's work on the Red Spear Society, the subject was a little understood movement that seemed of only passing interest to scholars of China?intriguing for its peculiar beliefs and rituals, perhaps, but hardly of central importance to modern Chinese history. Today, however, thanks in no small measure to the pioneering work of Professor Tai, the Red Spears have gained a secure niche in scholarship on modern China. Their numbers (reaching perhaps some three million participants at the height of the movement) and enduring (lasting intermittently for several decades) should stand as reason enough for the recent scholarly attention. But the Red Spears have generated interest for other reasons as well. As research has developed into the history both of China's traditional rural rebellions and of her Communist revolution has developed over the past few years, the Red Spears have assumed increasing significance. A movement which bore marked similarities to earlier Chinese uprisings (most notably the Boxers), the Red Spears nevertheless operated in a later period of history (right through the middle of the twentieth century) which brought them in direct contact with Communist revolutionaries. An analysis of the Red Spears thus becomes important both for what it can tell us about longstanding patterns of rural rebellion in China, and for what it suggests about the nature of Chinese revolution. 410 0$aMichigan monographs in Chinese studies ;$vno. 54. 686 $aHIS000000$aSOC000000$aSOC008000$2bisacsh 700 $aTai$b Hsuan-chih$01348243 702 $aSuleski$b Ronald 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477331003321 996 $aThe Red Spears, 1916-1949$93085595 997 $aUNINA