Introduction

In 2009, the author develops an interest in a research project on the Chinese communist revolution, which diverged from dissertation and the first book on late Qing reform. Similarly, the drafters of the recalling bitterness stories may not have considered how their tales might hurt the descendants of the villains. The study of the Chinese Communist Revolution and Chinese socialism requires a detached analysis of how it worked and how it affected ordinary people's lives and values. Due to the political and academic divisions between the pre-1949 revolutionary history and post-1949 contemporary China, it's rare to find books that explore the continuity between these two periods. During the revolutionary military years from 1927 to 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faced the challenging tasks of spreading its Western/Russian ideology to the Chinese people and building a robust army from a politically enlightened rural population.