Intellectuals in revolutionary China, 1921-1949 : leaders, heroes and sophisticates / Hung-yok Ip.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."

"First published in 2005. Transferred to Digital Printing 2009."--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-291) and indexes.

Part I. Introduction -- Perspectives -- Part II. Leaders: self-construction from the functional perspective -- Radical intellectuals as the guiding force of change: beginning of the political odyssey -- Manufacturing political leadership I: the Yaqian intellectuals and Peng Pai -- Manufacturing political leadership II: Mao Zedong -- Part III. Heroes: self-construction from the emotional perspective -- Narrating politicized subjectivity -- The nobility of ambivalence and devotion -- Part IV. Sophisticates: self-construction from the aesthetic experience -- Clinging to refinement in the revolution -- Part V. Epilogue -- Self-construction, politics and culture: some general reflections -- Conclusion.