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1. Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942

   By Gregor Benton

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that overthrew the Manchus and brought in the Republic. Between 1915 and 1919, he led the remarkable New Culture Movement that electrified student youth and laid the intellectual...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Chinese Migrants and Internationalism

   Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945

   By Gregor Benton

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Was Mao Really a Monster?

   The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s "Mao: The Unknown Story"

   Edited by Gregor Benton, Lin Chun

   Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the...

   Published June 29th 2009 by Routledge
4. Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution

   Edited by GREGOR BENTON

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Academic interest in Mao Zedong’s role in the Chinese Revolution remains intense, as scholars and commentators continue to analyze his thinking and the history of the movement for clues about the Chinese model and its supposedly unique features. The debate about Mao’s career and influence is now...

   Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge
5. Diasporic Chinese Ventures

   The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

   Edited by GREGOR BENTON, Hong Liu

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's...

   Published January 28th 2004 by Routledge
6. New Fourth Army

   Communist Resistance Along the Yangtse and the Huai, 1938-1941

   By Gregor Benton

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   This study looks at the first three years of the Chinese Communists' New Fourth Army, between the late spring of 1938 and January 1941. The New Fourth Army was no outgrowth or faithful copy of the senior and better-known Eighth Route Army but a body with its own origins and history, and with...

   Published July 25th 1999 by Routledge
7. Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942

   By Gregor Benton

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that overthrew the Manchus and brought in the Republic. Between 1915 and 1919, he led the remarkable New Culture Movement that electrified student youth and laid the intellectual...

   Published August 24th 1998 by Routledge