Thanks to my friend Hsiao-ting, I am officially affiliated with the Hoover institution as a visiting scholar from August 15 to November 15. I am on sabbatical leave from July 2018 to July 2019 from UCSC. This appointment at the Hoover Institution will allow me to access the rich collection in the Hoover Library and Archives and further substantiate my manuscript. Below is the Hoover proposal of my new book project:
BECOMING A COMMUNIST: Qu Qiubai and the Formation of Chinese Communist Party, 1919–1935
A proposal submitted to the Hoover Institute
By Minghui Hu, Associate Professor of History, University of California Santa Cruz
An Outline of My Academic Project:
In the formative stage of China’s revolution, Qu Qiubai (1899–1935), a pale and skinny man consumed by tuberculosis and exuding a scholarly vibe of old China, cloaked his identity under over one hundred noms de guerre as a leading member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). At the zenith of his career from 1927 to 1931, Qu act…