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Book Review

Asia


A. James Gregor. A Place in the Sun: Marxism and Fascism in China's Long Revolution. Boulder, Colo.: Westview. 2000. Pp. xv, 231. $45.00.

This survey offers an interpretation of the role played by Marxism and fascism in the unfolding of the Chinese Revolution. A. James Gregor's thesis is that Marxist influences have been overestimated (p. xi), whereas fascist influences have been neglected or misunderstood. Gregor is not the first author to remark that Marxist theory does not help much to account for the complex sequences of China's revolutionary struggles. More original are his views about fascism in China and his comparative analysis of the Chinese and Italian experiences. Fascism is presented as a brand of reactive and developmental nationalism with such specific features added as charismatic leadership, mass mobilization, totalitarian control of an emerging revolutionary society, and irredentist claims over "lost territories." . . .


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