Blood road : the mystery of Shen Dingyi in revolutionary China /

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Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi--revolutionary, landlord, politi...

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Frontmatter --
Contents --
Maps --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Chapter one. Death in Yaqian: August 28, 1928 --
Chapter two. One's native place: Hangzhou, 1916-1917 --
Chapter three. Awakening: a needle of light: Shanghai, 1919-1920 --
Chapter four. Rushing to calamity: Yaqian, 1921-1922 --
Chapter five. All fall down: Hangzhou and Yaqian, 1924-1925 --
Chapter six. The black star: Hangzhou and yaqian, 1925-1926 --
Chapter seven. A dangerous time: Hangzhou, 1927 --
Chapter eight. The representative of the masses: Yaqian, 1928 --
Chapter nine. Scenarios --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
1. Verfasser:
Schoppa, R. Keith
Körperschaft:
American Council of Learned Societies
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1998.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi--revolutionary, landlord, politician, poet, journalist, educator, feminist, and early member of both the Communist and Nationalist parties. The search for Shen's killer details the contours of revolutionary change in different spatial contexts--metropolitan Shanghai, the provincial capital Hangzhou, and Shen's home village of Yaqian. Several interrelated themes emerge in this dramatic story of revolution: the nature of social identity, the role of social networks, the political import of place, and the centrality of process in historical explanation. It contributes significantly to a new understanding of Chinese revolutionary culture and the 1920s revolution in particular. But Blood Road remains at base a story of people linked in various relationships who were thrust, often without choice, into treacherous revolutionary currents that shaped, twisted, and destroyed their lives.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) illustrations, maps, portrait.
Anmerkungen:
In English.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and index.
ISBN:
9780520921085
0520921089
9780585106045
0585106045
Schlagworte:
Shen, Dingyi, > -1928.
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