Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 leaders, heroes and sophisticates /

Ip, Hung-yok, 1961-

Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 leaders, heroes and sophisticates / [electronic resource] : Leaders, heroes and sophisticates Hung-yok Ip. - London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. - xii, 328 p. - Chinese worlds . - Chinese worlds. .

"First published 2005 by Routledge ... London ... " "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-291) and index.

Part I. Introduction -- Perspectives -- Part II. Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective -- Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: beginning of the political odyssey -- Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai -- Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong -- Part III. Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective -- Narrating politicized subjectivity -- The nobility of ambivalence and devotion -- Part IV. Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic experience -- Clinging to refinement in the revolution -- Part V. Epilogue -- Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections -- Conclusion.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Intellectuals--Political activity--History--China--20th century.


China--Politics and government--1912-1949.


Electronic books.

DS776.6 / .I62 2005

951.04/086/31