The Origins of Chinese Communism

The Origins of Chinese Communism by Associate Professor of History Arif Dirlik

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Author: Associate Professor of History Arif Dirlik
Page Count: 336 pages
Published Date: 19 Jan 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780195054545
File size: 46 Mb
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Based on a wealth of archival material released after Mao's death, this book offers a revisionist account of the introduction and triumph of Marxism in China. Dirlik shows that, in 1919, at the outset of the May Fourth Movement, anarchism was the predominant ideology among revolutionaries and intellectuals and Marxism was virtually unknown. Three years later, however, the Communist Party of China had emerged as the unchallenged leader of the Left. Dirlik disputes long-held beliefs about the domestic origins of Chinese Communism to argue that Communist thought and organization were brought into radical circles by the Comintern. Though Chinese radicals would not have turned to Communism unassisted, he concludes, Marxist ideology took hold easily when introduced from the outside. This book will prove indispensable to scholars of Chinese history and politics, Asian studies, Marxism, and comparative communism.

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