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Salt of the earth : the political origins of peasant protest and communist revolution in China / Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr.

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.Description: xix, 425 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520203186 (alk. paper)
  • 9780520203181 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 322.44095109041 21
LOC classification:
  • HX417.5 .T48 1997
Contents:
Bureaucratic Capitalism and the Emergence of Popular Antistate Protest -- State Making and the Intrusion of the Shuijingtuan into the Peasants' Salt Market -- The Peasant Saltmakers' Struggle in Puyang -- Qian Kou Village: The Police Attack on Prosperity -- The Police Attack on Impoverished Qi Ji -- The Battle with the Bicycle Cops in Subsistence-Level Fanzhuang -- Peasant Resentment, War, and National Resistance -- Community, Culture, and the Persistence of Rural Collective Action: Qian Foji in the CCP-Led War of Resistance -- The Popular Fear of the Return of the Kuomintang Fiscal Center and the Outbreak of Civil War
Summary: There are many books on the Chinese revolution, but none cover the politics of the revolution like this one. The author's collection and use of oral histories - from the last remaining eyewitnesses - and written corroborative materials is a remarkable achievement; his new interpretation of why China's rural people supported and joined the Communists in their quest for state power is dramatically different from what has come before.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-418) and index.

Bureaucratic Capitalism and the Emergence of Popular Antistate Protest -- State Making and the Intrusion of the Shuijingtuan into the Peasants' Salt Market -- The Peasant Saltmakers' Struggle in Puyang -- Qian Kou Village: The Police Attack on Prosperity -- The Police Attack on Impoverished Qi Ji -- The Battle with the Bicycle Cops in Subsistence-Level Fanzhuang -- Peasant Resentment, War, and National Resistance -- Community, Culture, and the Persistence of Rural Collective Action: Qian Foji in the CCP-Led War of Resistance -- The Popular Fear of the Return of the Kuomintang Fiscal Center and the Outbreak of Civil War

There are many books on the Chinese revolution, but none cover the politics of the revolution like this one. The author's collection and use of oral histories - from the last remaining eyewitnesses - and written corroborative materials is a remarkable achievement; his new interpretation of why China's rural people supported and joined the Communists in their quest for state power is dramatically different from what has come before.

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