ABSTRACT
In the Communist revolution of the 1930s, Mao Zedong emerged by mid-decade as the first among his peers; by the end of the decade, he was writing the canonical works for the party. The policy choices that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had made in the 1920s had left it dying on the side of the revolutionary road. Land revolution or, as it is more commonly called, "land reform," was a time-consuming process. At least one estimate suggests that it would take up to half a year for land reform managers to break through peasant passivity and suspicion and make the village population amenable to revolutionary activity. In Jiangxi, it should be noted, the motive for the "emancipation" of women was not gender equity but, in line with the 1928 statement, to gain their support and help in order to mobilize them for the national revolution.
