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• W2056330943 abstract "In the contemporary reflections with which he concludes his study, Tom Buchanan comments on the publication in 2009 of Martin Jacques’s When China Rules the World, the work of a sometime leading British communist and editor of Marxism Today. While describing as compelling Jacques’s thesis that China now confronts the West with an alternative modernity rooted in its own distinct culture and civilisation, Buchanan also notes how little awareness Jacques demonstrates of the British intellectual tradition within which his own work stands. Such an observation is justified. Responses of the British left to the first communist revolution in Russia have given rise to an extensive literature. So too have issues of anti-fascism, on which Buchanan himself has contributed significantly in respect of the Spanish civil war, and of anti-colonialism. China, however, has suffered relative neglect, and this impressive endeavour at rectifying that is at once topical, scholarly and illuminating. After a brief historical overview, Buchanan begins his account in the mid-1920s, when for the first time the sense of a China that represented some sort of alternative future was clearly articulated on the British Left. This, indeed, was one of three occasions (the others were 1937–8 and 1950–53) when, according to Buchanan, China appeared as a leading preoccupation of the Left, extending into the wider Labour movement. Between the 1930s and early 1960s, the issue of China sat relatively comfortably with the general campaigning priorities and partisan alignments of these milieux. Through resistance to Japanese aggression, it was accommodated within a wider narrative of 1930s anti-fascism, and in due course of the wartime alliance against the Axis powers. With the world’s second great communist revolution in 1949, it subsequently provided a focus of unconditional loyalty on the part of communists, of cold war hostility exacerbated by the conflict with British interests, and, somewhere in between, of the varied and often ambiguous attachments of a cast of critical observers and fellow-travellers whom Buchanan skilfully delineates. China was never a straightforward issue. Nevertheless, the issues were in some ways more challenging both in the 1920s, when China tested impulses of solidarity through a nationalist revolution that turned on its own most militant supporters, and following the Sino-Soviet split of the early 1960s. To some in this later period, China could appear as a purer form of communism’s iconoclastic radicalism, unsullied by the realpolitik of the post-Stalin Kremlin. To diverse Maoist sects and sympathisers, who have hitherto lacked an adequate historian, Buchanan thus devotes important sections of his later chapters. But he also evokes the powerful sense of revulsion as the news seeped out of excesses of terror and coercive social engineering surpassing even Stalin’s own." @default.
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• W2056330943 title "East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925-1976, by Tom Buchanan" @default.
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