Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists In Revolution, War, Jail, And The Return From Limbo
historical materialism, volume 81
$96.00
- Paperback
1269 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2017
Summary
Prophets Unarmed is an authoritative sourcebook on the Chinese Communist Party’s main early opposition, the Chinese Trotskyists. Opposed from Moscow by Stalin, and by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in China, the Trotskyists were China’s most persecuted political party. Though harassed nearly out of existence their standpoints and proposalsreproduced hereare not without relevance to China’s present political moment. Drawing on dozens of oral history interviews with survivors, this study of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781608465545 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1608465543 |
| Series: | Historical Materialism |
| Author: | Gregor Benton |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Imprint: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1269 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.36kg |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Gregor Benton
Gregor Benton is a Research Professor at Nanyang Technological University. His books include Mountain Fires, honoured by the University of California Press as a special book in Asian studies’ and by the Association of Asian Studies as the Best Book on Modern China. His translation of Hu Feng’s Prison Years won the English Pen Award.
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