Wild Lily, Prairie Fire by Gregor Benton
This is a sourcebook of documents of democratic dissent under Chinese communism. The essays range from eye-witness accounts of a massacre to theoretical critiques of Chinese Marxist thought. The introduction maintains that the documents reveal a tradition of democratic thought and practice that traces its descent to the New Culture Movement of the 1910s and the founding generation of the Chinese Communist Party. Far from being a late 20th-century import (along with capitalist economics) from Europe, Japan and the United States, this tradition of dissent is deeply embedded in the experience of China's revolutionary movements. This book calls into question many of the usual beliefs about the relation between democracy and communism, at least in the Chinese case, which may now be seen to depart from the Soviet model in yet another crucial respect.
"The core of this book is a brilliant 84-page introduction to the editors.. who seek to uncover a tradition of democratic dissent in the Chinese Communist Party from Yanan days to Tiananmen." * Choice *
Gregor Benton is Professor of Chinese Studies, and Alan Hunter is Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow, both in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, England. Benton's previous book was Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (California). With Chan Kim-Kwong, Hunter is the author of Protestantism in Contemporary China (Cambridge).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691043586 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691043582 |
| Title | Wild Lily, Prairie Fire |
| Author | Gregor Benton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1995-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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