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Maoist practice and Trotskyist critique of exclusion and suppression of urban working-class initiative in the overthrow of the Kuomintang and struggle against its landlord and capitalist supporters.
Western Historiography of the Chinese Revolution: Research Questions from the 1960s and 1970s;
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Chinese Revolution: Western Historiography of China in the 21st Century
I worked with Professor Timothy Cheek and other colleagues to interrogate the intellectual world of scholarly and public debate about the history of China’s twentieth-century revolutions and what they mean for China today and tomorrow. The project involves co-production of knowledge in mapping an intellectual field, collaborative translation, co-authoring analyses and translations and preparing these annotated translations for publication.
With Professor Gregor Benton and other colleagues, I contributed to a collection of English translations of the writings of Chinese Trotskyist Zheng Chaolin (1901-1998), who spent the years between 1952-1979 in prison in the PRC. The collection, Zheng Chaolin, Selected Writings, 1942-1998, will be published by Brill as part of its Historical Materialism Series.
Liberation and Historical Materialism: Trotskyists Explain the 1949 Chinese Revolution: Research Proposal
Permanent Revolution Interrupted? Trotskyist Responses to the 1949 Chinese Revolution