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SUMMARY:Maoist Rectification during Wartime - Chen Yung-fa (Modern History
  Institute of the Academia Sinica\, Taipei\, Taiwan) 
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Chen Yung-fa (Modern History Institute of the Academia Sinica\
 , Taipei\, Taiwan) will give a series of three public lectures and a concl
 uding symposium on The Meaning of the Chinese Communist Revolution.\n\nAbs
 tract\n\nDuring the civil war (1946-1949)\, Chiang Kaishek read the 22 rec
 tification documents\, including those written by Mao Zedong\, that served
  as keynote speeches for the Communist campaigns aiming to reform Party ca
 dres and make them conform to the ideal model of a Communist Party member.
   Chiang found the documents so beneficial and exciting that he even inten
 ded to urge his cadres to study them. This essay shows the discrepancies b
 etween the 22 documents and the actual political campaigns the Communist P
 arty undertook partly on the basis of those documents in Yanan in the 1940
 s.  The Communist campaigns that centered on the 22 documents are reexamin
 ed from three angles: the intraparty struggle among top leaders from 1940 
 to 1945\; the intensifying cadre screening campaign among all cadres from 
 1941 to 1943\; and the anti-traitor campaigns that aimed at uncovering tho
 se who were not supportive or not sufficiently supportive of the Party fro
 m 1943 to 1945.  Through the reconstitution of the Communist practice of t
 he rectification campaigns\, I argue that even if he intended to duplicate
  Mao’s rectification efforts\, Chiang could not make any headway\, becau
 se of the differences between himself and Mao\, and the Nationalist Party 
 and the Communist Party.  \n\nFull details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ev
 ents/2237/\n
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
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