Time and Place: <\/strong>Thursday, 01.07., 15:05\u201315:25 \u2013 Room 2 When Japanese occupation drove Chinese intellectuals out of their classrooms, campuses, laboratories, and the comfort of their coastal city live in the late 1930s, a generation of professors, professionals, and students regathered in the provisional capital of Chongqing. This paper explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) exploited the elite\u2019s growing distrust in the Nationalist (Guomindang) government and tried to strategically forge networks that brought left-leaning intellectuals closer to a CCP alliance. A network approach helps us detect and disentangle the complex web of overlapping memberships in scholarly and political associations in Chongqing and thus uncovers many of the CCP\u2019s strategies to secure popular support before 1949 that have been hidden from official party histories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Henrike Rudolph Time and Place: Thursday, 01.07., 15:05\u201315:25 \u2013 Room 2Session: Biographies and Careers in China When Japanese occupation drove Chinese intellectuals out of their classrooms, campuses, laboratories, and the comfort of their coastal city live in the late 1930s, a generation of professors, professionals, and students regathered in the provisional capital of Chongqing. This paper explores how the Chinese<\/p>\n
Session:<\/strong> Biographies and Careers in China<\/p>\n\n\n\n