Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary

Download or read book Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary written by Stephen R. MacKinnon and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.