David E. Apter was Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development at Yale University. Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School. His books include Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist Party and Governance and Politics of China.

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic should become a central text in rethinking Maoism, Chinese politics and social theory… This work has the mark of genius.

• Preface Acknowledgments Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics FICTIVE TRUTHS AND LOGICAL INFERENCES Four Struggles Three Stories One Line YAN'AN AS A MOBILIZATION SPACE The Surviving Yan'anites The Terrain on the Ground Yan'an as a Revolutionary Simulacrum THE POWER OF SYMBOLIC CAPITAL Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, 1935-1945 Notes Index

David E. Apter was Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development at Yale University. Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School. His books include Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist Party and Governance and Politics of China.

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic should become a central text in rethinking Maoism, Chinese politics and social theory… This work has the mark of genius.

• Preface Acknowledgments Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics FICTIVE TRUTHS AND LOGICAL INFERENCES Four Struggles Three Stories One Line YAN'AN AS A MOBILIZATION SPACE The Surviving Yan'anites The Terrain on the Ground Yan'an as a Revolutionary Simulacrum THE POWER OF SYMBOLIC CAPITAL Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, 1935-1945 Notes Index

David E. Apter was Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development at Yale University. Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School. His books include Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist Party and Governance and Politics of China.

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic should become a central text in rethinking Maoism, Chinese politics and social theory… This work has the mark of genius.

• Preface Acknowledgments Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics FICTIVE TRUTHS AND LOGICAL INFERENCES Four Struggles Three Stories One Line YAN'AN AS A MOBILIZATION SPACE The Surviving Yan'anites The Terrain on the Ground Yan'an as a Revolutionary Simulacrum THE POWER OF SYMBOLIC CAPITAL Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region, 1935-1945 Notes Index