Introduction: explaining revolution / Feng Chongyi and David S.G. Goodman -- Getting peasants organized: village organizations and the Party-state in the Shaan Gan Ning border region, 1934-1945 / Pauline Keating -- Revolution in a "feudal fortress": Yangjiagou, Mizhi county, Shaanxi, 1937-1948 / Joseph W. Esherick -- Social reform and value change in the Jin Cha Ji anti-Japanese border region / Wei Hongyun -- Social and political change in the villages of the Taihang anti-Japanese base area / Tian Youru -- Resistance and revolution, religion, and rebellion: the Sixth Trigram movement in Licheng, 1939-1942 / David S.G. Goodman -- The making of the Jin Sui base area: peasants, intellectuals, and democratization / Feng Chongyi -- The survival of the Shandong base area, 1937-1943: external influences and internal conflicts / Elise A. DeVido -- Comparative perspectives: north and central China in the anti-Japanese resistance / Gregor Benton.