Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution PDF
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i RedQ at Heart ii iii Q Red at Heart HOW CHINESE COMMUNISTS FELL IN LOVE WITH THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Elizabeth McGuire 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Elizabeth McGuire 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McGuire, Elizabeth, author. Title: Red at heart : how Chinese communists fell in love with the Russian Revolution / Elizabeth McGuire. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2017008881 (print) | LCCN 2017012238 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190640569 (Updf) | ISBN 9780190640576 (Epub) | ISBN 9780190640552 (hardcover : acid-free paper) Subjects: LCSH: China—Relations—Soviet Union. | Soviet Union—Relations—China. | Chinese—Soviet Union—History. | Revolutionaries—China—History—20th century. | Revolutionaries—China—Biography. | Communists—China—History—20th century. | Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917–1921—Influence. | China—Foreign relations—1912–1949. | China—Foreign relations—1949–1976. Classification: LCC DS740.5.S65 (ebook) | LCC DS740.5.S65 M38 2017 (print) | DDC 303.48/2510470904—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008881 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America v For my parents Thomas Roger McGuire and Patricia Mae Ainsworth vi vii Q Contents Prologue: At Vova’s 1 Introduction: Serious Romance 3 Part I. First Encounters, circa 1921 1. Emi’s Adventures: Changsha- Paris- Moscow 19 2. Qu’s Quest: Tolstoy and the Trans- Siberian Journey 31 3. New Youth, New Russians 54 Part II. School Crushes, 1920s 4. School Dramas 67 5. Shanghai University and the Comintern Curriculum 89 6. A Crush on Russia: Qu’s Female Protégés 101 7. Chiang Kaishek’s Son in Red Wonderland 116 8. Heartbreak: The Demise of Qu 136 vii viii viii Contents Part III. Love Affairs, 1930s– 1940s 9. Kolia the Chinese 157 10. Liza/ Li: The Agitator and the Aristocrat 168 11. Emi/ Eva: The Love Affairs of a Sino- Soviet Poet 183 12. The Legend of He Zizhen, Mao’s Wife in Moscow 205 13. Sino- Soviet Love Children 226 Part IV. Families, 1950s 14. Male Metaphors 257 15. Wang, Dasha, and Nastya: Russian Romance Redux 269 16. Legitimate Offspring: Chinese Students in 1950s Moscow 283 17. Female Families: Liza’s Home, Eva’s Adventures 296 Part V. Last Kisses, 1960s and Beyond 18. The Split Within: Sino- Soviet Families under Pressure 319 19. Defiant Romantics: Ironies of Cultural Revolution 342 20. Nostalgia: Wang’s Search 366 Epilogue: At Yura’s 373 Acknowledgments 375 Abbreviations 379 Notes 381 Bibliography of Works Cited 415 Index 437 ix
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