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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/chinese-revolution-military-mo
 bilization/
SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution and Military Mobilization: Reexamining Moder
 n China through Armies and Regional Societies
DESCRIPTION:\n	Anami Yusuke (Professor\, Department of Law\, Tohoku Univers
 ity\, Japan\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth Perr
 y (Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute\; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Gov
 ernment\, Harvard University)\n\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center 
 for Chinese Studies\n\n	The victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) i
 n the Civil War of the 20th century has been perceived as a “revolution
 ”\, based on the understanding that the CCP’s armed struggle was backe
 d by mass military mobilization which was linked with social reform. It ha
 s been widely believed that social reform\, which was called “land refor
 m” or “land revolution”\, should be the key factor to explain the Co
 mmunist victory in China.\n\n	Although writing history along the Marxist t
 heory of class struggle has drastically diminished in recent years\, and h
 istory of revolutions in France and Russia have been under revision for qu
 ite a while\, the established theory regarding the “Chinese Revolution
 ”\, which emphasizes social reform as the foundation for mass military m
 obilization\, hasn’t been thoroughly challenged.\n\n	However\, during th
 e past two decades\, research focusing on various regional societies durin
 g the civil war period is uncovering abundant evidence showing that\, in r
 eality\, land reform was by and large not so successful\, if not disastrou
 s. The area and period which this kind of research covers is rapidly expan
 ding. This has ignited a debate in Japan about how\, and to what extent\, 
 land reform actually contributed to the armed struggle of the CCP. In rece
 nt years\, a number of Japanese scholars have come to claim that land refo
 rm only played a marginal or supplementary role.\n\n	If that is the case\,
  then where did all those soldiers who composed the Chinese Red Army come 
 from? Yusuke Anami\, who has been conducting archival research for the pas
 t decade on army-building in certain areas of China (mainly Guangdong and 
 Jiangxi) during the Republican Period\, will talk about the reality of mil
 itary mobilization and armed struggle during the “Land Revolution War”
 . He will also discuss his hypothesis regarding the relationship between t
 he CCP’s armed struggle and social reform\, to provide an alternative to
  the explanation of the CCP’s victory and to add a new perspective to di
 scussions about contemporary China.
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