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Chen Hansheng : China's last romantic revolutionary /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: MacKinnon, Stephen R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Chen, Hansheng, > 1897-2004.
Scholars > China > Biography.
Spies > China > Biography.
China > Intellectual life > 20th century.
China > History > 20th century.
China > Foreign relations > 20th century.
Savants > Chine > Biographies.
Chen, Hansheng, > 1897-2004
Scholars
China
Biographies.
Biographies
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Elite roots
  • 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.