title: Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
author:  R. Keith Schoppa 
description: <br /><strong>R. Keith Schoppa</strong> is Edward and Catherine Doehler Chair in Asian History at Loyola University, Maryland. He is the author of several monographs and textbooks on Chinese history, including <em>Blood Road </em>(1998), which won the Association for Asian Studies 1997 Levenson Prize for the best book on twentieth-century China.<br />
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover](../Text/cover.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Preface to the 2015 Edition](../Text/Preface2015.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Preface](../Text/Preface.html)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Notes for the Reader](../Text/ReaderNotes.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Abbreviations Used in the Text and Notes](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#qAbbreviations-Used-in-the-Text-and-Notes2)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Transliteration](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#qTransliteration3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Chinese measures](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#qChinese-measures4)
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Note on Sources of Mao’s Works](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#qNote-on-Sources-of-
  Mao-s-Works5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Statements before 1949](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#qStatements-before-19496)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Speeches, writings and quotations after 1949](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#q-Speeches--writings-and-quotations-after-17)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [References](../Text/ReaderNotes.html#qReferences8)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Part I - The Long March to Victory](../Text/Part1.html#qPart-I9)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [1\. The Workers’ Re