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Red at heart : how Chinese communists fell in love with the Russian Revolution /

"Beginning in the 1920s thousands of Chinese revolutionaries set out for Soviet Russia. Once there, they studied Russian language and experienced Soviet communism, but many also fell in love, got married, or had children. In this they were similar to other people from all over the world who wer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGuire, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue at Vova's
  • Map of contemporary Russia and China
  • Introduction: Serious romance
  • Part I. First encounters, circa 1921
  • Emi's adventures : Changsha-Paris-Moscow
  • Qu's quest : Tolstoy and the Trans-Siberian
  • New youth, new Russians
  • Part II. School crushes, 1920s
  • School dramas
  • Shanghai University and the Comintern's curriculum
  • A crush on Russia : Qu's female protégés
  • Chiang Kaishek's son in red wonderland
  • Heartbreak : the demise of Qu
  • Part III. Love affairs, 1930s-1940s
  • Kolia the Chinese
  • Liza/Li : the agitator and the aristocrat
  • Emi/Eva : the love affairs of a Sino-Soviet poet
  • The legend of He Zizhen, Mao's wife in Yanan and Moscow
  • Sino-Soviet love children
  • Part IV. Families, 1950s
  • Male metaphors : Mao, Stalin and brotherhood
  • Wang, Dasha, and Nastya : Russian romance redux
  • Legitimate offspring : Chinese students in 1950s Moscow
  • Female families : Liza's home, Eva's adventures
  • Part V. Last kisses, 1960s and beyond
  • The split within : Sino-Soviet families under pressure
  • Defiant romantics : ironies of cultural revolution
  • Nostalgia : Wang's search
  • Epilogue at Yura's.