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How the Red Sun Rose: The Origin and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945

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Gao Hua
2018
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan’an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Sovietinfluenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how Mao Zedong established his leadership through this partywide political movement by means of aggressive intraparty purges, thought control, coercive cadre examinations, and total reorganizations of the Party’s upper structure. The result of this movement not only set up the foundation for Mao’s new China, but also deeply influenced the Chinese political structure today. The Chinese version of How the Red Sun Rose was published in 2000, and has had nineteen printings since then.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Foreword

pp. vii-xiv

Preface

pp. xv-xviii

Preface to Second Printing

pp. xix-xx

Acknowledgments

pp. xxi-xxii

Abbreviations

pp. xxiii-xxiv

1. The Origins of the Disagreementsbetween Mao and the Central Leadershipof the Chinese Communist Party

pp. 1-88

2. The Expansion of Mao’s Power after theZunyi Conference and Moscow’s PoliticalInterference

pp. 89-130

3. Power Struggles and Reorganization of theParty Leadership after Wang Ming’s Returnto China

pp. 131-170

4. Mao’s Great Victory over Wang Ming

pp. 171-196

5. Seizing the Power of Ideological“Interpretation”

pp. 197-220

6. The Internal and External Environmentsof the Chinese Communist Party and Mao’sAdvantageous Position on the Eve of theRectification Movement

pp. 221-278

7. Revolution Begins at the Top:Mao and Wang Ming Cross Swords

pp. 279-318

8. The Revolution Shifts Downward:The Launch of the Full-scale RectificationMovement

pp. 319-334

9. From the “Yan’an Spring” tothe Attack on Wang Shiwei

pp. 335-388

10. The Revolution Deepens:Reconstructing the Apparatus for Propagandaand Cadre Education

pp. 389-418

11. Forging the “New Man”:From Rectification to Cadre Examination

pp. 419-470

12. The Revolution Hits Its Peak:The Cadre Examination, Anti-spy, andEmergency Rescue Campaigns

pp. 471-538

13. Yan’an and the Base Areas during theEmergency Rescue Campaign

pp. 539-626

14. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back :The Retreat of the Emergency RescueCampaign

pp. 627-660

15. “Long Live Chairman Mao”:The Culmination of the Yan’an RectificationMovement

pp. 661-706

Postscript

pp. 707-718

Notes

pp. 719-772

Bibliography

pp. 773-796

Index

pp. 797-812
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