title: The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective, 2nd Edition
author:  John E. Schrecker 
description: .,."a historical narrative certain to be of great value to students of politics and society. It is at once lively and engaging and theoretically sophisticated. By adopting a Chinese perspective and applying it not only to China itself but also to the interventions of the West, Schrecker opens the way for a new comparative history."-Michael Walzer The Institute for Advanced Study<br /><br />"John Schrecker has neatly sabotaged the habit of shoe-horning Chinese history into categories of analysis derived from Western experience. He recasts the familiar narrative in a vocabulary drawn from old Chinese ways of understanding Chinese politicds. While retaining a social scientist's sensibility, he challenges the implicit conclusions about Chinese history that ineveitably flow from a Western frame of reference. The effect is to see it all afresh."-Ernest P. Young University of Michigan<br /><br />"In this remarkably original synthesis, John Schrecker integrates Chinese and Western history in the last two hundred years. Instead of applying Western concepts of historical analysis to China, he seeks to understand modern history, both of China and of the West, through Chinese historiographical categories. The reader will appreciate not only the Chinese historiographical tradition but also the way this tradition enriches one's understanding of world history. An ambitious, much needed study."-Akira Iriye Harvard University
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  On Chinese revolution
  
  By J stalin
  
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  A collection of Stalin’s speeches and articles on China in the years
  1926-1927.
  
  1
  
  The Prospects of the Revolution in China
  
  # Speech Delivered in the Chinese Commission of the E.C.C.I.
  
  # November 30, 1926
  
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  Comrades, before passing to the subject under discussion, I think it necessary
  to say that I am not in possession of the exhaustive material on the Chinese
  question necessary for giving a full picture of the revolution in China. Hence
  I am compelled to confine myself to some general remarks of a fundamental
  character that have a direct bearing on the basic trend of the Chinese
  revolution.
  
  I have the theses of Petrov, the theses of Mif, two reports by Tang Ping-shan
  and the observations of Rafes on the Chinese question. In my opinion, all
  these documents, in spite of their merits, suffer from the grave defec