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  • 3 - A Different Approach to Revolution

  • Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University
  • Book:
    Forging Leninism in China
    Published online:
    03 February 2022
    Print publication:
    24 February 2022, pp 70-100

  • Summary

    Chapter Three lays out Mao Zedong’s determination to build a revolutionary army. Party policy at the time argued for mobilizing the masses and the party leadership thought that Mao’s approach was too militaristic. Mao and Zhu De came into conflict over the scope of party control, and Mao was voted out. Zhou Enlai backed Mao, and he was restored to his position. The chapter ends with the Gutian Conference, at which Mao asserted his dominance over the military.

  • 19 - Outside In

  • from Part Four - Nationwide
  • Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book:
    June Fourth
    Published online:
    01 April 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 168-176

  • Summary

    Events and people outside of Beijing shaped what happened in China's capital. Protests in Xi'an and Changsha help convince Deng Xiaoping to take a hard line against demonstrators in Beijing. Hundreds of thousands of protesters from the provinces took trains to Beijing, adding to leaders' fears of a nationwide democracy movement. Many of the leaders of student organizations in Beijing had been born and raised elsewhere in China, but they failed to build meaningful ties to protesters from other places.