Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
- ISBN-10
- 0190640553
- ISBN-13
- 9780190640552
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Elizabeth McGuire
Description
Prologue at Vova's -- Map of contemporary Russia and China -- Introduction: Serious romance -- Part I. First encounters, circa 1921 -- Emi's adventures : Changsha-Paris-Moscow -- Qu's quest : Tolstoy and the Trans-Siberian -- New youth, new Russians -- Part II. School crushes, 1920s -- School dramas -- Shanghai University and the Comintern's curriculum -- A crush on Russia : Qu's female protégés -- Chiang Kaishek's son in red wonderland -- Heartbreak : the demise of Qu -- Part III. Love affairs, 1930s-1940s -- Kolia the Chinese -- Liza/Li : the agitator and the aristocrat -- Emi/Eva : the love affairs of a Sino-Soviet poet -- The legend of He Zizhen, Mao's wife in Yanan and Moscow -- Sino-Soviet love children -- Part IV. Families, 1950s -- Male metaphors : Mao, Stalin and brotherhood -- Wang, Dasha, and Nastya : Russian romance redux -- Legitimate offspring : Chinese students in 1950s Moscow -- Female families : Liza's home, Eva's adventures -- Part V. Last kisses, 1960s and beyond -- The split within : Sino-Soviet families under pressure -- Defiant romantics : ironies of cultural revolution -- Nostalgia : Wang's search -- Epilogue at Yura's
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