Tony Saich, Hans van de Ven, David E. Apter, Stephen C. Averill, Gregor Benton, Lucien Bianco, Timothy Cheek

• Part I Early Organizational Trends; Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Text-Centered Party, Hans J. van de Ven; Chapter 2 The Politics of Gender in the Making of the Party, Christina Gilmartin; Chapter 3 What Is Wrong with Li Dazhao?, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik; Part II Regional Variations; Chapter 4 The Origins of the Futian Incident, Stephen C. Averill; Chapter 5 Under Arms and Umbrellas: Perspectives on Chinese Communism in Defeat, Gregor Benton; Chapter 6 Fits and Starts: The Communist Party in Rural Hebei, 1921–1936, Kathleen Hartford; Chapter 7 Peasant Responses to CCP Mobilization Policies, 1937–1945, Lucien Bianco; Part III The Making of Victory; Chapter 8 Discourse as Power: Yan’an and the Chinese Revolution, David E. Apter; Chapter 9 The Honorable Vocation: Intellectual Service in CCP Propaganda Institutions in Jin-Cha-Ji, 1937–1945, Timothy Cheek; Chapter 10 The Blooming Poppy under the Red Sun: The Yan’an Way and the Opium Trade, Chen Yung-fa; Chapter 11 Writing or Rewriting History? The Construction of the Maoist Resolution on Party History, Tony Saich; Chapter 12 From a Leninist to a Charismatic Party: The CCP’s Changing Leadership, 1937–1945, Frederick C. Teiwes, Warren Sun; Chapter 13 Conclusion, John Dunn;