Hung-yok Ip. Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949: Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates

New York: Routledge, 2005. — 347 p.This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution.Front Cover
Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921–1949
Copyright PageAcknowledgements
AbbreviationsPerspectives
Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective
Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: the beginning of the political odyssey
Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai
Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong
Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective
Narrating politicized subjectivity
The nobility of ambivalence and devotion
Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic perspective
Clinging to refinement in the revolution
Epilogue
Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflectionsNotesBiographical notes
Index of Chinese names and phrases
Subject and name index