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‘Blind Actionism’ in Action: Understanding the Hundreds of Small Revolts Led by Communists at the End of the 1920s in China
Season 1 Episode 73
Using the early November 1927 peasant revolt in Jiangsu province to illustrate features common to the many small Communist-led uprisings at the end o…
4 years, 6 months ago
Summing Up Failures, or Playing the Blame Game? The November 1927 Politburo Meeting in Shanghai
Season 1 Episode 72
The Politburo meets to decide whether the leadership’s overall policy was wrong, or whether all the cadres carrying out the policy are just bad.
Furth…
4 years, 6 months ago
Sedan Chairs, Tired Intellectuals, and Indifferent Masses: The Denouement of the Nanchang Uprising/Southern Expedition (August to October 1927)
Season 1 Episode 71
We follow the Southern Expeditionary force from Ruijin in Jiangxi province to Shantou in Guangdong.
Further reading:
Marcia Ristaino, China’s Art of Re…
4 years, 7 months ago
Hearts, Minds, and a Head on a Spike: The Unification of People and Forces in the Jinggangshan
Season 1 Episode 70
How Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai’s forces were brought into the Red Army, and Mao cemented the loyalty of the locals by marrying the Two-Gunned Girl Gene…
4 years, 7 months ago
Secret Agent for International Maoism: José Venturelli, Chinese Informal Diplomacy and Latin American Maoism
Season 1 Episode 69
A podcast version of an article published a few years back. The Chilean artist José Venturelli was a supporter of Maoist China. This article, a brief…
4 years, 7 months ago
Two Incursions, One Betrayal, and Six Points for Attention: The Red Army in Chaling and Suichuan (October 1927 to January 1928)
Season 1 Episode 68
The early progress of the Red Army in expanding Soviet power in the Jinggangshan region.
Further reading:
Stephen Averill,
4 years, 7 months ago
Alliances, Discipline, and an Army to Serve the People: The Beginning of the Jinggangshan Base Area (October 1927)
Season 1 Episode 67
Mao forges an alliance with Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo, and the Revolutionary Army builds its capacity as a political force.
Further reading:
Stephen Ave…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Early Jinggangshan Revolutionary Movement
Season 1 Episode 66
How the Chinese revolution came to the Jinggangshan, and how the revolution and counter-revolution developed up until Mao’s arrival in October 1927.
F…
4 years, 8 months ago
Mao’s Bandit Comrades: Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai
Season 1 Episode 65
The stories of Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai before they joined up with Mao Zedong.
Further reading:
Stephen Averill,
4 years, 8 months ago
Bandits of the Jinggangshan
Season 1 Episode 64
A closer look at the phenomenon of banditry in the Jinggang Mountains, because of the importance that banditry and other forms of collective violence…
4 years, 8 months ago