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This volume conducts a pathbreaking new analysis of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Crossing the Chinese border, Ishikawa Yoshihiro not only considers the relations between the CCP and the Comintern (as well as the Soviet Union) but also closely scrutinizes its relations with Japan and Western countries. -- Naoki Hazama, professor emeritus of modern Chinese history, Kyoto University

Table of Contents

Introduction to the English Edition (2010) Introduction (2001) 1. The Reception of Marxism in China 2. Soviet Russia 3. Toward the Formation of the Chinese Communist Party 4. The First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Afterword Appendix 1. Chinese Translations from Japanese of Works on Socialism Appendix 2. Explanation of Texts Concerning Chinese Socialism Appendix 3. Shi Cuntong's Deposition Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Ishikawa Yoshihiro completed his graduate work at Kyoto University and is now an associate professor at its Institute for Research in Humanities. He has also taught at Kobe University. In addition to his research on the early Chinese Communist Party, he has followed the emergence of the social sciences in China and is currently investigating socialist culture in post-1949 China. Joshua A. Fogel studied at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Kyoto University. He has taught at Harvard University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is Canada Research Chair in the History Department at York University. Among many other works, he is the author, most recently, of Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time and the translator of Inoue Yasushi's The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan.

Reviews

Joshua Fogel has rendered Ishikawa Yoshihiro's Japanese study into a lucid and scrupulously prepared English edition. This account of the international aspects of the founding of the CCP is built on vivid detail and impeccable archival research. It is an important new contribution to English-language scholarship and an invitation to comparative scholars of modern Chinese history, Sino-Japanese relations, and world Marxism. -- Timothy Cheek, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia With this solidly documented and critically argued book, Ishikawa Yoshihiro has made a major contribution to our understanding of the process of the formation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -- Daniel Y.K. Kwan American Historical Review Highly interesting and laudable... with a superb level of documentary research. Journal of Chinese Political Science