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Revolution in the Countryside: The Peasant Movement in Hunan in the Wake of the Northern Expedition

People's History of Ideas Podcast

English - October 08, 2020 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 119 ratings
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Mass upheaval in Hunan and elsewhere after people are liberated from warlord rule.

Further reading:
C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927
Yokoyama Suguru, “The Peasant Movement in Hunan”
Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920-June 1927

A name from this episode:
Wu Peifu, Northern warlord

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