Planning the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan

Mao doesn’t budge on his military line in the face of pressure from the Party Center, and then gets arrested.Further reading:Marcia Ristaino, China’s Art of Revolution: The Mobilization of Discontent, 1927 and 1928Tony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist PartyRoy Hofheinz, “The Autumn Harvest Insurrection”Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930Elizabeth Perry, Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary TraditionC. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928Edgar Snow, Red Star Over ChinaSome names from this episode:Qu Qiubai, Named head of new provisional politburo at August 7, 1927 Emergency ConferenceBesso Lominadze, New Comintern head in China starting in July 1927Peng Gongda, Leading Communist in HunanYang Kaihui, Mao’s wifeTang Shengzhi, Leader of Guomindang Left military forcesMao Anlong, Mao’s youngest sonMao Anqing, Mao’s three-year-old sonMao Anying, Mao’s four-year-old sonSupport the show