Originally published in the early 1970s, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China has proved to be one of the most significant and enduring books published in the field. In this new critical edition of that seminal work, Mark Selden revisits the central themes therein and reconsiders them in light of major new theoretical and documentary understandings of the Chinese communist revolution.

1: Shensi Province: The Revolutionary Setting; 2: Rebels and Revolutionaries in the Northwest; 3: From Land Revolution to United Front: The Shen-Kan-Ning Soviet, 1935-1936; 4: The New Democracy in the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region, 1937-1941; 5: Crisis and the Search for a New Order; 6: The Yenan Way; Conclusion; Epilogue