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Article: Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movements in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 1999
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By Pauline B. Keating (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. xvi plus 340pp. $49.50).
The Yenan [Yah'an] Way in Revolutionary China, Mark Seldon's controversial study of the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, that barren area of Northwest China governed by the Communist Party (CCP) from 1935 to 1947, was, for many years, the pivotal study of revolutionary change. Its supporters praised it while its detractors produced studies of other wartime bases showing that the Yan'an model could not be applied universally. After the initial flurry of activity on the region, scholars turned away from Yan'an utilizing newly available source materials to study other ...