TY - BOOK ID - 9719223 TI - Ai Ssu-ch'i's Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism PY - 1987 SN - 0674012607 1684171105 PB - Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - S06/0410 KW - S06/0405 KW - S05/0221 KW - Communism KW - -#SML: Joseph Spae KW - Bolshevism KW - Communist movements KW - Leninism KW - Maoism KW - Marxism KW - Trotskyism KW - Collectivism KW - Totalitarianism KW - Post-communism KW - Socialism KW - Village communities KW - China: Politics and government--CCP: 1921 - 1949 (Here also relations with Russian CP in that period) KW - China: Politics and government--CCP, history and ideology: general KW - China: Biographies and memoirs--20th century: individuals KW - History KW - Ai, Ssu-ch'i KW - -Contributions in communism KW - History. KW - #SML: Joseph Spae KW - Ai, Siqi, KW - Ai, Ssu-chʻi, KW - Aĭ, Sy-t︠s︡i, KW - Ai, Szu-chʻi, KW - 艾思奇, KW - Gai, Shiki, KW - Si, Qi, KW - Ssu, Chʻi, KW - Siqi, KW - Ssu-chʻi, KW - 思奇, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9719223 AB - Before the Cultural Revolution, Ai Ssu-ch'i (1910-1966) was one of Communist China's foremost Marxist philosophers, second only to Chairman Mao himself. Ai was attracted to Marxism-Leninism as a young student in China and Japan,and wrote numerous books and articles seeking to explain the complexities of the philosophy in language everyone could understand. His writings were enormously popular during the 1930s and 1940s, and went through many printings despite continuous harassment from Kuomintang censors. This volume is the first full-length study of Ai Ssu-ch'i. In spite of his popularity, Ai has largely been ignored in recent histories of the Chinese Communist movement, because his importance lies in his function as a popularizer rather than as an original thinker. However, it can be shown that Mao and other leaders of the movement were influenced by him, and his writings and translations certainly helped to attract many young Chinese intellectuals to the Communist cause. The recent flood of reminiscence literature in China has reserved a special place of prominence for Ai Ssu-ch'i. This is not only because he was so admired by Mao, but also because he devoted his life so enthusiastically and wholeheartedly to the Party. Joshua Fogel traces the pattern of this devotion via Ai's crucial role in spreading Marxist-Leninist thought among Chinese intellectuals. ER -