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Author Murray, Jeremy A., author.

Title China's lonely revolution : the local communist movement of Hainan Island, 1926-1956 / by Jeremy A. Murray
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 237 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Contents Cultivating and exploiting a "primitive" island : from Hainan's early history into the twentieth century -- Political prospects in the early Republic : revolution, warlords, and diaspora, 1912-1926 -- From globetrotters to guerrillas : Hainan's early communists -- An outrage of little consequence : the Japanese invasion and occupation of Hainan -- New allies : the Baisha uprising and the Li-communist alliance, 1943 -- Holding aloft Hainan's red flag : disobedience and survival in the civil war, 1946 -- Sharing victory : the communist conquest of Hainan Island -- Bringing Hainan to the nation's heel : anti-localism in the early PRC -- Epilogue
Summary "Presents a new view of the Chinese revolution through the lens of the local Communist movement in Hainan between 1926 and 1956. Jeremy A. Murray's study of local Communist revolutionaries in Hainan between 1926 and 1956 provides a window into the diversity and complexity of the Chinese revolution. Long at the margins of the Chinese state, Hainan was once known by mainlanders only for its malarial climate and fierce indigenous people. In spite of efforts by the Chinese Nationalists and the Japanese to exterminate Hainan's Communists, the movement survived because of an alliance with the indigenous Li. For years it persevered, though in complete isolation from Communist headquarters on the mainland. Using Chinese-language sources, archival materials, and interviews, Murray draws a vivid picture of this movement from the Hainanese perspective, and broadens our understanding of how patriotism, Party loyalty, and Chinese identity have been experienced and interpreted in modern China"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed May 25, 2017)
Subject Communism -- China -- Hainan Sheng -- History -- 20th century
Revolutionaries -- China -- Hainan Sheng -- History -- 20th century
Communists -- China -- Hainan Sheng -- History -- 20th century
Li (Hainan people) -- China -- Hainan Sheng -- Politics and government -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Communism
Communists
International relations
Politics and government
Revolutionaries
SUBJECT Hainan Sheng (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Hainan Sheng (China) -- Relations -- China
China -- Relations -- China -- Hainan Sheng
China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024107
China -- History -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024123
Subject China
China -- Hainan Sheng
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017017786
ISBN 9781438465326
1438465327