Chinese Revolutionary Memoirs, 1919-49 - Wang Fan-hsi
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Very good (minus) condition - some spotting to top edge of pages. Dust jacket price clipped. "From the time in 1925 when the young Wang Fan-hsi opted to support Ch'en Tu-hsiu's policies of active revolution and struggle against what he had called 'all those phenomena that can be described as hypocritical, conservative, passive, restrictive, privileged, conventional, ugly, detestable, combative, frictional, inert, gloomy, and oligarchic', Mr. Wang's life has been a 'hectic succession of strikes and violent polemics of constant changes of name and alias, of feverish political writing and translating, of organizing and educating among the workers, and of long periods of incarceration in prisons and detention centres'. So writes Gregor Benton, translator of this unique record of China's revolution from the viewpoint of one of its most faithful veterans. In Moscow, where he had been sent for training in 1927 by the Chinese Communist Party, Mr. Wang encountered Trotskyism. And it was as a Trotskyist that he was expelled from the party. Six years after his imprisonment in 1931, Mr. Wang was released just as the Japanese armies arrived in Nanking; then, throughout the war and until his eventual exile in 1949, he continued to promulgate the Trotskyist heresy. It was in the 1950s that Mr Wang's memoirs were published, in an edition of only twenty copies, to be read chiefly by those Trotskyists who had survived Mao Tse-Tung's rise to power and moved over to Hong Kong."
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