REPORTING THE CHINESE REVOLUTION: The Letters of Rayna Prohme. By Baruch Hirson and Arthur J. Knodel. Edited with an introduction by Gregor Benton. London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007. xii, 196 pp. (Photos.) US$35.00, Cloth, ISBN 798-0-7453-2642-9.
In this book Rayna Prohme speaks from the grave. Although hardly a serious study of the 1927 revolution in Wuhan, as an excavation of memoir-by-letters, her blow-by-blow account of personal involvement holds up well as first draft history.
In the introduction, Gregor Benton reviews the major political events that framed the emergence in the spring of 1927 of Wuhan as the "rRevolutionary" centreer of a new Republican ...