Sep 16 2020 26 mins 33
How the Communist Party took the formula of "Haifeng + armed self-defense" and set out to organize the peasants of Guangdong, and beyond. Further Reading: Pang Yong-pil, “Peng Pai: From Landlord to Revolutionary” Yuan Gao, “Revolutionary Rural Politics: The Peasant Movement in Guangdong and Its Social-Historical Background, 1922–1926” Robert Marks, Rural Revolution in South China: Peasants and the Making of History in Haifeng County, 1570-1930 Roy Hofheinz, The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928 Fernando Galbiati, P’eng P'ai and the Hai-Lu-Feng Soviet Gerald Berkley, “The Canton Peasant Movement Training Institute” C. Martin Wilbur and Julie Lien-ying How, Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920-1927 Elizabeth Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 Some names from this episode: Peng Pai, Communist peasant organizer Chen Jiongming, Warlord dominant in Haifeng region until 1925 Li Zhongkai, Leader of Guomindang left, assassinated in 1925 Li Dazhao, Co-founder of the Communist Party
