Resistance, urban style : the New Fourth Army and Shanghai, 1937-1945
Allison Rottmann, University of California, Berkeley (Degree granting institution)
This dissertation examines the relationship between the city of Shanghai and the Communist New Fourth Army during the War of Resistance Against Japan. It is a multivocal exploration of wartime experiences that brings urban voices to the forefront of "rural revolution." Before 1980, Maoist state policy required that Shanghai's significance to the growth of wartime Chinese Communism be historically ignored, and western scholarship followed suit. This study uses memoir sources published in recent decades to recover this history, arguing that the Shanghai style of resistance was a planned and focused movement of urban resources to promote rural-based Communist revolution, while also nurturing the movement's growth within the city throughout the war
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2007