1st Edition
Transpacific Revolutionaries The Chinese Revolution in Latin America
Introduction 1. China and Latin America 2. Mexico: The Wayward Disciples of Vicente Lombardo 3. Forging the Fourth Sword of Marxism: The Chinese Revolution and Peru’s Shining Path 4. Bolivia: Nationalists and Maoists Diverge Conclusions
Biography
Matthew Rothwell is Associate Professor of History at Bryant University Zhuhai.
"We have long needed a book such as that which Matthew Rothwell provides in Transpacific Revolutionaries. His work on the important influence of Chinese maoists on Latin American revolutionary thought and action fills a significant gap in our understandings of Latin American marxism." - Marc Becker, A Contracorriente
"This pioneering work measures the effect of Chinese success and experience on key elements of the Latin American left and populism in the second half of the twentieth century including the 1968 student movement in Mexico, the Shining path in Peru, and the growing unrest in Bolivia. It is a must-read for students of Modern Latin America." – John Mason Hart, University of Houston
“The strength of this volume is to be found in its comparative and transnational approach. Students of ‘global’ Maoism and of the transnational influence of the Chinese Revolution, as well as students of the history of the Left in Latin America and of the region’s experience of the Cold War, will find much that is of interest in Transpacific revolutionaries.” - Paulo Drinot, Journal of Global History
