North China at War The Social Ecology of

This groundbreaking volume draws on newly available documentary sources to explore key facets of the move to power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the War of Resistance to Japan from 1937 to 1945. Leading scholars from China and the West compare the varied experiences of the CCP_and its interactions with local society_in all the border regions and base areas of resistance to the Japanese invasion on the North China battlefront. Eschewing grand theory, the authors develop a Osocial ecology of revolutionO that traces the relationship between local conditions and patterns of social and political change.

List of Illustrations

vii

Preface

ix

Terminology and Language: A Note to the Reader

xi

Maps of North China Broder Regions and Base Areas

xv

Introduction: Explaining Revolution

1

(24)

Feng Chongyi

David S.G. Goodman

Getting Peasonts Organized: Village Organizations and the Party-State in the Shaan Gan Ning Border Region, 1934-1945

25

(34)

Pauline Keating

Revolution in a ``Feudal Fortress'': Yangjiagou, Mizhi Country, Shaanxi, 1937-1948

59

(34)

Joseph W. Esherick

Social Reform and Value Change in the Jin Cha Ji Anti-Japanese Border Region

93

(22)

Wei Hongyun

Socical and Political in the Villages of the Taihang Anti-Japanese Base Area

115

(16)

Tian Youru

Resistance and Revolution, Religion, and Rebellion: The Sixth Trigram Movement in Licheng, 1939-1942

131

(24)

David S.G. Goodman

The Making of the Jin Sui Base Area: Peasants, Intellectuals, and Democratization

155

(18)

Feng Chongyi

The Survival of the Shandong Base Area, 1937-1943: External Influences and Internal Conflicts

173

(16)

Elise A. DeVido

Comparative Perspectives: North and Central China in the Anti-Japanese Resistance

189

(36)

Gregor Benton

Index

225

(10)

About the Contributors

235

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North China at War The Social Ecology of Revolution, 1937–1945

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