China's Lonely Revolution: The Local Communist Movement of Hainan Island, 1926–1956 by Jeremy A. Murray (review)
Chapter 6 details the refusal on the part of the Hainan fighters to leave the island and join the main force in the north of China, as ordered by the central CCP, a refusal that was motivated by practical and political considerations and that left the local forces almost completely isolated in fight...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Twentieth-century China 2018-05, Vol.43 (2), p.E-13-E-14 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Chapter 6 details the refusal on the part of the Hainan fighters to leave the island and join the main force in the north of China, as ordered by the central CCP, a refusal that was motivated by practical and political considerations and that left the local forces almost completely isolated in fighting for their own survival during the civil war. [...]I would be much more cautious than Murray is in embracing Frank Dikötter's description of the early PRC; and I would never dream of calling his narrative—or any narrative—"nonideological." There are other problems that could have been prevented by a more attentive editor: while the book proceeds in chronological fashion, the narrative moves back and forth within chapters and the reader is often confused; chapters 1 and 2 should have been condensed into a much shorter introduction, as the crucial contributions all come in the second part; some aspects—for example, the role of indigenous people—should have been followed through in the narrative and not relegated to one section. |
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ISSN: | 1521-5385 1940-5065 1940-5065 |
DOI: | 10.1353/tcc.2018.0011 |