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This talk by Harvard University’s Rana Mitter is the second lecture of Cornell University's new lecture series "Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China." Did the Communists win or the Nationalists lose the Chinese civil war? Professor Mitter will reexamine this classic question with new evidence from diaries and memoirs of the period that examine how economic crisis and political disillusionment in the existing regime interacted with a new type of revolutionary identity.
This talk will discuss the immensely complex and ambiguous political atmosphere in the period leading up to 1949 and suggest that while the forces behind revolution were powerful, they contained the seeds of their own contradictions as well.
Photo credit: "China’s Chairman Builds a Cult of Personality" Courtesy of TIME. Photo © Tim O'Brien.
This talk will discuss the immensely complex and ambiguous political atmosphere in the period leading up to 1949 and suggest that while the forces behind revolution were powerful, they contained the seeds of their own contradictions as well.
Photo credit: "China’s Chairman Builds a Cult of Personality" Courtesy of TIME. Photo © Tim O'Brien.