Revolution in the highlands: China's Jinggangshan base area

Part I: Jinggangshan before Mao

Jinggangshan society and economy

Bandits and brotherhoods

Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai

The early Jinggangshan revolutionary movement

Part II: The Jinggangshan revolutionary base area

Establishing the Jinggangshan base

"All that is needed is to go in circles:" contending for the base

Socioeconomic reform

The midyear crisis

Autumn and the fall of the base

Part III: Jinggangshan after Mao

Jinggangshan after Mao

Crisis and rupture.