The Rise of Red China — How Political Legitimacy Becomes Revolutionary Power
What happens when a government retains formal power but gradually loses the cooperation that makes that power sustainable?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Rise of Red China by Robert Goldston as our lens, this episode investigates the systems behind China’s revolutionary transformation and the Communist victory of 1949.
Goldston connects that outcome to a much longer history of land concentration, taxation, landlord-bureaucratic power, peasant hardship, foreign intrusion, nationalism, failed reform, and competing political…
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