Abstract
Peasant rebellions, or peasant wars as they are called in the PRC, have constituted an important subject of study in Chinese Communist historiography, as shown in James P. Harrison's excellent monograph The Communists and Chinese Peasant Rebellions (Atheneum, 1969). Approaches and interpretations have tended to be rather general and stereotyped, especially in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. As the author of the following article says, "Research into the problem of the function of peasant wars for a long time simply revolved around a few ready-made cliches, with the result that finally only one proposition remained: peasant wars pushed forward the development of productivity.
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