... beauty and power, they do not represent the activities and beliefs of the majority of the people. I am grateful to Philip Clart for his comments on a draft of this review. DANIEL L. OVERMYER University of British Columbia Christianity in Rural China: Con ict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860...

...Stephen C. Averill Abstract In August 1927 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Jiangxi seemed moribund, yet by the end of 1930 the movement was larger and more active than ever before. How did this occur? Past studies have especially emphasized Mao Zedong's famous rural guerrilla strategy...

...Parks M. Coble Counterrevolution in China: The Nationalists in Jiangxi During the Soviet Period . By William Wei . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1985 . xiv, 243 pp. Maps, Tables, Notes, Appendix, Glossary, List of Works Cited, Index. $20. Copyright © The Association...

... a growing number of scholars have been persuaded to explore back beyond the confines of the Yenan era in their search for the roots of Communist victory in China. The Huang, Bell, and Walker monograph is an important contribution to that enterprise. Focusing on the Jiangxi Soviet period, the monograph...

.... A collection of materials on nineteenth-century agricultural history includes accounts of food riots in Anhui, Fengtian, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. A recent compilation of eighteenth-century source materials lacks examples from Fengtian but augments the above list...

... By nonchalantly calling the poet Huang Tingjian (1045–1105) an “innovator” (p. 39) and reminding us that many critics likewise considered him innovative until recent decades when the issue of “original” versus “derivative” came to define much of the discussion about Huang and “Jiangxi” poetry, Yugen Wang recasts...

..., Jiangxi . Lee Ching Kwan , and Selden Mark . 2007 . “China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution and Pitfalls of Reform.” Japan Focus , January 21. http://japanfocus.org/ [accessed July 8, 2008 ]. Jianjun Li . 2002 . “Zhonggong Anyuan diwei dangxiao shiliaokao” [Historical...

... and villages even today, and their position in relation to the general phenomenon of confraternities in Japan. Party, Society, and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement STEPHEN C. AVERILL Pages 279-303 In August 1927 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Jiangxi seemed moribund, yet by the end of 1930...

... : 84 – 126 . Averill Stephen C. 1987 . “ Party, Society and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement .” Journal of Asian Studies 46 . 2 : 279 – 503 . Bell Catherine. 1992 . Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York : Oxford University Press . Blythe Wilfred. 1969...

... centers in Jiangnan and the court in Beijing demanded high-quality timber to erect palaces, build ships, and construct houses. But this timber could only be supplied by a limited number of forests. These were located in the Yangzi highlands, Jiangxi, and, eventually, Hunan and Guizhou. How the Qing Empire...

...Hekang Yang In their analysis, Fewsmith and Saich point to Jiangxi and Yan'an, both of which illustrate the CCP's flexibility and exploration of governance under Mao's leadership. As the Ming and Qing states relied on the gentry class for indirect rule, the CCP under Mao sought to create...

...; the communists fled Jiangxi. Yet this was an expensive and time-consuming method. It worked in Jiangxi, but Chiang could not use this approach against the Japanese or in the later civil war. Wei's study is well researched and written. His conclusion is somewhat disappointing. He sees the major significance...

... of the majority of the people. I am grateful to Philip Clart for his comments on a draft of this review. DANIEL L. OVERMYER University of British Columbia Christianity in Rural China: Con ict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860 1900. By ALAN RICHARD SWEETEN. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 91...

... extremely adept in illustrating how historians use archival sources in their research in a way that is appropriate to teach with. DeMare begins with his setting: Poyang County, an obscure corner of Jiangxi Province, representing “the furthest reaches of government administration in China” for most...

...–8), each focusing on one type of task he undertook in his capacities as governor of Zhejiang and Jiangxi and as governor-general, first in Guangdong and Guangxi and then in Yunnan and Guizhou. The tasks included the suppression of piracy in Zhejiang; investigation of scams associated with secret...

... the question of communist growth both before the 1937 45 resistance war and after. On the pre-1937 period, Johnson s argument made it necessary for him to target radical land reform as one of the Jiangxi Soviet s strategic weaknesses. The CCP s violent, class-based, land-redistribution program had allegedly...

...-hour coup. The memoir offers a lively account of the political intrigues, military battles, occasional coups, forced marches, and desperate hunger that accompanied one wing of the Northern Expeditionary forces as they traipsed from Guangdong north through Jiangxi to Hubei and on to Henan, then back...

..., Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangxi. By their personal and reflective nature, these diaries provide an intimate look into the people and their lives as well as the natural environment of these regions in the late twelfth century, and invaluable information that cannot be found...

... in their income-earning activities" (p. 25). Since these three books all critically examine the nature of the Party's commitment to gender equality, it is not surprising that they cover much of the same territory the policies of the Jiangxi Soviet and Yanan, the Marriage Reform Campaign of the early 1950s...

.... In Chapter 2 of the book, "From Realism to Transcendence: The Origin and Development of Lu You's Poetic Style," Duke first recounts Lu You's own perception of his poetic development and then briefly outlines several influences on his style, e.g., Jiangxi poetry, Du Fu, and Mei Yaochen. The word "realism...