Red Star over East Asia: Communist States and Communist Parties

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Mackerras, Colin
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1998
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One of the most important features of post-Second World War politics in the Asia-Pacific has been the rise of Asian communism. In the inter-war period Asian communism seemed a peripheral political player. Mao and the Chinese communists had withdrawn to remote parts of Jiangxi in south-east China, unable to take on either the Japanese occupiers or the Chinese nationalists. Nascent communist parties in Korea, Vietnam and elsewhere were in their infancy, often no more than small groups of colonially educated intellectuals. By the early 1950s, communist parties had ridden a wave of decolonization, civil war and peasant revolution, that took them to power in North Korea, North Vietnam and China. Communists were active political players in the Philippines, Malaya, Indonesia and Japan. In the following decades, national communist movements were defeated, marginalized and sometimes exterminated in all of these states but continued to win victories in Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos.

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Governance in the Asia-Pacific

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