Rebellion and Revolution: The Study of Popular Movements in Chinese History
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 36 (2) , 201-237
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2053720
Abstract
During the past twenty-five years, hundreds of studies of Chinese peasant rebellions have appeared in print. Most of these were published in the People's Republic of China, where they represented an effort to create a new revolutionary history of class struggle, intended to replace the elite history written by Confucian historiographers under the empire. Embodying Mao Tse-tung's belief that “the ruthless economic exploitations and political oppression of the peasantry by the landlord class forced the peasants to rise repeatedly in revolt against its rule” (Mao 1961, Vol. III, p. 75), these studies of popular uprisings describe a bewildering variety of social phenomena.This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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