Enjoy fast, FREE delivery, exclusive deals and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns

FREE delivery Wednesday, November 15 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35

Or fastest delivery Friday, November 10. Order within 12 hrs 50 mins

Select delivery location

In Stock

$$34.95 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Ships from

Amazon.com

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Returnable until Jan 31, 2024

Returns

Returnable until Jan 31, 2024

For the 2023 holiday season, eligible items purchased between November 1 and December 31, 2023 can be returned until January 31, 2024

Read full return policy

Payment

Secure transaction

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Details

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

FREE delivery Thursday, November 16 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35

Or fastest delivery Friday, November 10. Order within 1 hr 5 mins

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by Abundance Booksellers

Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$30.95
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: SuperBookDeals--

Follow the author

Elizabeth J. Perry

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition (Volume 24) First Edition

by Elizabeth J. Perry (Author)

5.0 7 ratings

Book 15 of 23: Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$34.95

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$93.03

$75.00

$66.51

Paperback

"Please retry"

$34.95

$20.95

$19.70

Kindle
$34.95 Read with our free app
Hardcover
$66.51 - $93.03

5 Used from $66.51 10 New from $75.00
Paperback
$30.01 - $34.95

6 Used from $19.70 13 New from $20.95

{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$34.95","priceAmount":34.95,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"34","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"95","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"AKAeslNcyN6UlcpcQi2Wcm5AkMi5rQ66lMwQw3A0jTLLk%2BYxBSPu%2BTKFoo%2F%2FLOfEMrJHGpgAFA5MeBhyYrSNp3B%2B8a9agQtzf8YcgKSwKHHrRohzfNUia5JXyJwtA02tX5hl70hBZzFVlSeRp0iBbA%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$30.01","priceAmount":30.01,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"30","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"01","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"AKAeslNcyN6UlcpcQi2Wcm5AkMi5rQ667oJMC8aHoS0TwQmN%2F4fHAWOazAHHI2scamF5q30jCXWr35Hctc82%2FbsZISAC0qjFXJDJQw8Scc5WsAhPDdYdxxIFxwIOuDmRRnWoVWEqjoLt4Mrcv2wuTpRmzE0lB2bi7xM2ukb%2BbRkUt3dUTQHfvgEkQ3bfUh0%2B","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources – during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards. Skillful “cultural positioning” and “cultural patronage,” on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly “Chinese.” Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of “political correctness” in the People’s Republic of China. Once known as “China’s Little Moscow,” Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition. Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.

ISBN-10

0520271904
ISBN-13

978-0520271906
Edition

First Edition
Publisher

University of California Press
Publication date

October 1, 2012
Book 15 of 23

Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes
Language

English
Dimensions

6 x 1.03 x 8.9 inches
Print length

412 pages
See all details

Elizabeth Perry
2
Paperback
33 offers from $10.44
James C. Scott
26
Paperback
39 offers from $2.34
James C. Scott
88
Paperback
37 offers from $8.48
Laurence Coderre
Paperback
17 offers from $22.90
Sebastian Heilmann
1
Paperback
24 offers from $20.82
Jeremy Friedman
16
Hardcover
1 offer from $120.00

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Meticulously researched and elegantly narrated. . . . It is a book well worth reading.” -- Carla Nappi ― New Bks In East Asian Stds Published On: 2013-03-05

"This is Elizabeth Perry at her best: the book achieves its aims and is a pleasure to read." -- Timothy Cheek ― Journal of Asian Studies Published On: 2014-02-01

"Theoretically stimulating, empirically rich, and analytically penetrating . . . essential reading for students of Chinese Communism." ― The China Journal Published On: 2014-08-01

From the Inside Flap

This book is classic Perry -- elegantly and clearly written, based on rich and previously unexplored source material, full of human detail on political actors at the local level, presenting a gripping narrative and a clear analytical thrust. Perrys account of Anyuan is fresh and original, making a convincing case for the areas enduring contribution to the revolution. - Joseph W. Esherick, UC San Diego, author of Ancestral Leaves

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (October 1, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 412 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520271904
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520271906
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.03 x 8.9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,947,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #640 in Asian History (Books)
- #2,775 in Asian Politics
- #2,809 in Sociology (Books)

Customer Reviews:
5.0 7 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

Important information

To report an issue with this product, click here.

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Elizabeth J. Perry

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

5 out of 5

7 global ratings

5 star

100%

4 star

0%

3 star

0%

2 star

0%

1 star

0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

LU XIA

Thought-provoking and Empirically-solid research on the history of the CCP

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2014

Verified Purchase

Professor Perry, my supervisor's supervisor, is an expert in Chinese revolution and the history of the CCP. Her work on Anyuan, or we can say on the early development of the CCP in working class, is an excellent, thought-provoking, and empirically-solid research on both the history of the CCP and the sinification process of Marxism-Leninism, both of which has become more and more important in China study field abroad and domestically.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

d.r.

Would recommend and use this provider again

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014

Verified Purchase

Quick service and item as described. Would recommend and use this provider again.

Helpful

Lauren

A great book, accesible even to a layman

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2016

Elizabeth Perry’s work, "Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition", is striking not only because of its topic, but also because it approaches Perry’s argument – that cultural positioning was the key to the success of the Chinese Communist Party – in such a way as to craft a narrative rich in explanations, cultural examples, and illustrative analysis that allows not only her argument, but her array of examples, as well as the history of Chinese communism, to be accessible and interesting to those outside of her area of expertise. This book is able to clearly present a fairly complex argument framed in a unique way – around the town of Anyuan – complete with all of the relevant political and cultural history necessary to understand it, many examples to support it, and to do so while including – but not getting bogged down with – details that make it enjoyable and understandable even to historians with no firm basis in Chinese history or culture. I would argue that this accessibility makes "Anyuan" as valuable a resources as its content does.

After reading this book, I now have a mechanism for understanding how communism – “an alien import both ideologically and institutionally” (284) in China – was able to last where its Soviet counterpart could not. Arguably the most memorable line of the book, Perry asserts that “successful cultural positioning and patronage renders the foreign familiar; a Russian recipe can be made to taste Chinese” (287). After reading her book, she had convinced me – who has very little knowledge of Communist China and relied on her explanations and descriptions – that cultural positioning was key not only to the acceptance, but also the transformation and longevity, of the Chinese Communist party-state.

Overall, the idea of cultural positioning is an interesting one and it seems like it could be a useful possibility to considering when trying to understand the lifespans of different regimes – regardless of whether they are communist or not.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

coolissimo

Outstand book about recent Chinese history

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2015

Verified Purchase

Perry has written a fascinating account of Anyuan - the location of a famous miner's strike in 19xx, and a place closely associated with mao Zedong that once held a central place in the history of the CPC; and which briefly in the 1920s was known as "Little Moscow". The changing fortunes and perceptions of Anyuan, subject not only to fluctuations in economic conditions but also to policy and personnel changes in distant Beijing are explained in detail and supported by interviews with long-term residents of the town and some of the major political actors. This book is strongly recommended to anyone interested in the longue duree of recent Chinese history.

See more reviews