Village China at War: The Impact of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774814577)

Forged in the furnace of the anti-Japanese war, Chinese communism first took root in the North, later expanding to conquer all of China. The nature of this explosive growth remains disputed. Dagfinn Gatu examines issues that have so far not received comprehensive treatment. In the North China regions, the CCP secured most of its recruits and its policy programmes were most severely tested by Japanese military campaigns. The CCP movement in these regions had a broad, if uneven, redistributive impact on power resources. These conditions lead to a structural fluidity that lowered the barriers to a future revolution.

Author: Dagfinn Gatu
ISBN-10: 0774814578
ISBN-13: 9780774814577
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2007
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover