Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949: Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates

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This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution. Front Cover Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921–1949 Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Part I Introduction 1 Perspectives Part II Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective 2 Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: the beginning of the political odyssey 3 Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai 4 Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong Part III Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective 5 Narrating politicized subjectivity 6 The nobility of ambivalence and devotion Part IV Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic perspective 7 Clinging to refinement in the revolution Part V Epilogue 8 Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections 9 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Biographical notes Index of Chinese names and phrases Subject and name index