Michael Gasster

China's intellectuals : advise and dissent

Dissident Intellectuals and the Regime The Liberal Intellectuals Response of the Radical Intellectuals The Party Rectification of 1964-1965 The Cultural Revolution Ideological Divergence of the Shanghai Group The Scientists and Deng Xiaoping The Consequences of Advice and Dissent Notes Index

Popular protest and political culture in modern China : learning from 1989

A reconsideration of contemporary Chinese society and politics since the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989. The book emphasizes the need to understand the vital role that a culture plays in shaping political action.

Salt of the earth : the political origins of peasant protest and communist revolution in China

Examines the political and economic origins of the October revolution in China in 1949. The text is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and collective protest activities helped shape the nature and course of the Chinese revolution in rural areas. Focusing on the Partys relationship with locally esteemed non-Communist leaders, the author shows that the Partys role is best understood in terms of its intimate connections with local collective activism and with existing modes of local protest, both of which were the product of rural people acting on their own grievances, interest and goals.

Democracy and socialism in Republican China : the politics of Zhang Junmai (Carsun Chang), 1906-1941

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 The Making of a Constitutionalist and Socialist Chapter 3 Chinese Constitutionalist in Late-Meiji Japan, 1906-1910 Chapter 4 A Western Model for China? Sojourn in Weimar Germany, 1919-1921 Part 5 Politician and Educator in Warlord and Guomindang China Chapter 6 The Making of a Third-Force Politician in the 1920s Chapter 7 Schools and Educational Visions, 1923-1941 Part 8 Opposition to Communism and the Guomindang During the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937 Chapter 9 Trials of a Third-Force Intellectual During the Early Years of the Nanjing Decade Chapter 10 Heaven or Hell: Soviet Russia through the Eyes of a Third-Force Intellectual at the Beginning of the Nanjing Decade Chapter 11 Soviet Russia, the Comintern, and the Chinese Communists: The Views of a Third-Force Politician During the Early 1930s Chapter 12 Third Force: The National Socialist Party of China, 1932-1937 Chapter 13 In Search of the Middle Way: The Debate over Democracy and Dictatorship during the 1930s Part 14 Unity and Disunity During the War of Resistance Against Japan Chapter 15 The Other United Front: The National Socialist Party of China, the Guomindang, and the Chinese Communists, 1937-1938 Chapter 16 A Letter to Mao: The Polemic over Zhangs Attack on the CCP, 1938-1939 Chapter 17 The Philosopher and the Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Life and Death of the Institute of National Culture, 1939-1941 Chapter 18 Epilogue Chapter 19 Glossary

Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement: A Study of Deng Zhongxia (1894-1933)

Kwan (University College of the Fraser Valley, BC) uses the life of Deng Zhongxia, the organizer and leader of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong General Strike of 1925-26, to assess the relationship between the Chinese labor movement and the Chinese Communist revolution. In the process, he also considers the