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Article: Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- January 1, 2000
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Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945. By Pauline B. Keating. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 340. $49.50.)
Our understanding of the complex process that brought Communists to power in China is being greatly enriched by local studies of the revolution in different places; these studies have been made possible by an increase in available information, and are informed by increasingly sensitive analysis. The locality under study here is northern Shaanxi province, a poor region of difficult terrain and hostile elements and the site of the Communists' central base for over a decade ...