The Kailuan coal mines were among the largest and most lucrative foreign enterprises in late Qing and Republican China. From their founding in 1878 through 1901, when British capital secured control of the mines, to the labor struggles and warlord battles of the 1920s, the depression of the...

Wen Rui's Land Revolution in the Chinese Soviet is the finest study available in English, perhaps in any language, on the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the peasantry first forged in the furnace of land revolution and guerrilla war in the years 1927-35. The author works...

Wen Rui's Land Revolution in the Chinese Soviet is the finest study available in English, perhaps in any language, on the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the peasantry first forged in the furnace of land revolution and guerrilla war in the years 1927-35. The author works...

pWen Rui's iLand Revolution in the Chinese Soviet/i is the finest study available in English, perhaps in any language, on the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the peasantry first forged in the furnace of land revolution and guerrilla war in the years 1927-35. Working closely...