Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-431) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Surviving the Cultural Revolution with hope and despair, 1966-2004. Study abroad -- Baby professor and Peking University -- The activist is born, 1925-1927 -- Chen Hansheng and the Chinese peasant -- The other hat : political activism, 1929-1934 -- Tokyo and Moscow, 1934-1935 -- Institute of Pacific Relations, 1936-1939 -- Hong Kong and Industco, 1939-1942 -- Escape to Guilin and India, 1942-1946 -- Activism and scholarship on two fronts, 1946-1950 -- Bittersweet : PRC early years, 1951-1966 -- Surviving the Cultural Revolution with hope and despair, 1966-2004.
Summary:
Chen Hansheng was not only a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, remembered for the village studies he organized by teams of researchers in the 1930s. He was also a political operative whose career as an underground and aboveground Communist activist spanned the twentieth century and the globe. This book draws on unique interviews, beginning in 1979, with Chen himself, his family and associates, along with an exhaustive examination of documents, writings, and archives, to build a rounded portrait of Chen, the man, and his world.
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