广州农民运动讲习所
Ming-dynasty Confucian temple turned nineteen twenty-six revolutionary academy, where Mao Zedong trained peasant organizers.
This guide to the Peasant Movement Institute in Guangzhou starts inside a five-hundred-year-old Confucian academy that once trained scholars for imperial exams, and the year 1926, when drilling boots and lectures on class struggle filled its quiet courtyards instead. You'll hear how Mao Zedong arrived as director of the institute's sixth class, alongside Zhou Enlai and Peng Pai, teaching more than three hundred students from twenty provinces how to organize the countryside. It walks through the pyramid diagram Mao chalked up to show who held up rural society, and asks you to picture those students at the low wooden desks and dormitory bunks that remain.
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