Zheng Chaolin, Selected Writings, 1942–1998 / / edited by Gregor Benton and John Sexton, with an introduction by Gregor Benton, with contributions by Gregor Benton, Walter Daum, Donald Gasper, Sean A. James, Gregor Kneussel, Tsim Shum Kow, Kevin Lin, Owen Miller, John Sexton, Huang Ting, Yang Yang.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series, volume 275
• VerfasserIn: Zheng, Chaolin, 1901-1998
• TeilnehmendeR: Benton, Gregor,; Sexton, John, 1952-; Gasper, Donald,; James, Sean A.,; Daum, Walter,; Lin, Kevin,; Kneussel, Gregor,; Kow, Tsim Shum,; Miller, Owen,; Yang, Yang,; Ting, Huang,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Chinese
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 275.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 429 pages)

"Zheng Chaolin helped found the Chinese Communist Party's European branch in Paris in 1922 and its Trotskyist Opposition in Shanghai in 1931. He held the world record in political imprisonment - seven years under Chiang Kai-shek (as a revolutionary) and 27 under Mao (as a 'counterrevolutionary'), thus beating by a year Auguste Blanqui's previous record. After joining the revolution in his teens, his commitment never wavered. Born in 1901, he died in 1998, so his life was coterminous with the century and a dramatic embodiment of its vicissitudes. This book is record of his contribution to revolutionary thought in China."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Gregor Benton -- 1 ABC of Permanent Revolution (1942) / Translated by John Sexton -- 2 Commemorating Comrade Chen Duxiu (1942) / Translated by Donald Gasper -- 3 Love and Politics (1945) / Translated by Gregor Benton -- 4 Discussion on Problems of Revolution (1946–79) / Translated by Sean A. James -- 5 State Capitalism (1950) / Edited and with an introduction by Walter Daum -- 6 Poems on Political Themes (1958–90) / Translated and with explanatory notes by Gregor Benton -- 7 Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists (1980–1) / Translated by Gregor Benton -- 8 On Chinese Cadreism (1985) / Translated by Kevin Lin -- 9 The Young Karl Marx and the Theory of Alienation (1988) / Translated by Gregor Kneussel, with an introduction by Gregor Benton -- 10 Reflections on the 1989 Tian’anmen Incident (June 20, 1989) / Translated by Tsim Shum Kow, edited and with an introduction by Owen Miller -- 11 The October Revolution, Thermidor, and the Stalinist Mode of Capitalism (1991) / Translated by Yang Yang -- 12 On Cadreism (c. 1992) / Translated by Huang Ting -- 13 Letters across the Sea (1996–8) / Translated and with explanatory notes by Gregor Benton -- Appendices -- Zheng Chaolin’s Life and Death -- Obituary of Zheng Chaolin / Wang Fanxi -- A Self-Description at the Age of Ninety (written 1 May 1990).