Research Catalog

Title

A road is made : Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927 / S.A. Smith.

Author

Smith, S. A. (Stephen Anthony), 1952-

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2000.

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Details

Description

x, 315 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : map; 25 cm.

Summary

• "This is a study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the party's relations to the city's students and teachers, women, entrepreneurs, secret societies, and, above all, its workers, and examines the efforts to transform the CCP into a "Leninist" party, exploring relations between intellectuals and workers and men and women."
• "The book culminates in a detailed analysis of the three armed uprisings which led to the CCP's briefly taking power in March 1927, before being crushed by the troops of Chiang Kai-shek. The study highlights the extent to which the Soviet Union sought to control China's national revolution, yet also reveals how divisions at every level of the Comintern allowed the CCP to achieve a degree of independence and to conduct a policy at considerable variance with that laid down by Moscow." "In addition to using the wealth of Chinese material that has become available since the 1980s, this study is the first to make use of the Comintern materials that have become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Chinese worlds

Uniform Title

Chinese worlds

Alternative Title

Communism in Shanghai, 1920-1927

Subjects

• Communism
• China
• Communism > China > Shanghai
• 1912-1928
• History
• Zhongguo gong chan dang
• China > History > 1912-1928
• China > Shanghai
• Communism > China > Shanghai > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-300) and index.

Contents

The Formation of a Communist Party in Shanghai -- The Communist Party in Shanghai, 1921-22 -- The CCP and the United Front in Shanghai, 1923-24 -- The Communists Perfect a Labour Movement Strategy -- The Shanghai Communists and the May Thirtieth Movement -- The Shanghai Communists and the United Front, 1925-26 -- The CCP and the Labour Movement in 1926 -- The First and Second Armed Uprisings -- The Third Armed Uprising -- The 12 April 1927 Coup.

ISBN

• 0824823141
• 9780824823146

LCCN

99048958

OCLC

• ocm42463191
• 42463191
• SCSB-1140886

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library