Red At Heart

How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-752843-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 804 g

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance.

This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to study, often falling in love and having children there. Their deeply personal memoirs, interviews with their children, and a vivid collection of documents from the Russian archives allow Elizabeth McGuire to reconstruct the sexually-charged, physically difficult, and politically dangerous lives of Chinese communists in the Soviet Union. The choices they made shaped not only the lives of their children, but also the postwar alliance between the People's Republic of China and Soviet Russia.

Red at Heart brings to life a cast of transnational characters--including a son of Chiang Kai-shek and a wife of Mao Zedong--who connected the two great communist revolutions in human terms. Weaving personal stories and cultural interactions into political history, McGuire movingly shows that the Sino-Soviet relationship was not a brotherhood or a friendship, but rather played out in phases like many lifelong love affairs - from first love, early betrayal, and love children; through eventual marriage with its conveniences and annoyances, guarded optimism, and official heirs; to divorce, reconciliation, and a nostalgia that lingers even today.

A century after 1917, this book offers a novel story about Chinese communism, the Russian Revolution's most geopolitically significant legacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGuire, Elizabeth

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen Russische Revolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Prologue At Vova's

- Introduction: Serious Romance

- Part I: First Encounters: Circa 1921

- 1 Emi's Adventures: Changsha-Paris-Moscow

- 2 Qu's Quest: Tolstoy and the Trans-Siberian

- 3 New Youth, New Russians

- Part II: School Crushes: 1920s

- 4 School Dramas: Costumes, Lines, Roles

- 5 Shanghai University and the Comintern's Curriculum

- 6 A Crush on Russia: Qu's Female Protégés

- 7 Chiang Kaishek's Son in Red Wonderland

- 8 Heartbreak: the Demise of Qu

- Part III: Love Affairs: 1930s-1940s

- 9 Kolia the Chinese

- 10 Liza/Li: The Agitator and the Aristocrat

- 11 Emi/Eva: The Love Affairs of a Sino-Soviet Poet

- 12 The Legend of He Zizhen: Mao's Wife in Moscow

- 13 Sino-Soviet Love Children

- Part IV: Families: 1950s

- 14 Male Metaphors: Mao, Stalin and Brotherhood

- 15 Wang, Dasha, and Nastya: Russian Romance Redux

- 16 Legitimate Offspring: Chinese Students in 1950s Moscow

- 17 Female Families: Liza's Home, Eva's Adventures

- Part V: Last Kisses: 1960s and Beyond

- 18 The Split Within: Sino-Soviet Families Under Pressure

- 19 Defiant Romantics: Ironies of Cultural Revolution

- 20 Nostalgia: Wang's Search

- Epilogue At Yura's

- Acknowledgments

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth McGuire is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, East Bay. She has studied, lived, and worked in Moscow and Beijing.