📆 Saturday 14 February 2026, 3pm Britain, 10am US Eastern
Join us in person or online for a discussion of Jenny Clegg’s Storming the Heavens: Peasants and Revolution in China, 1925-1949.
The book launch will be held at Marx Memorial Library. This event will feature a discussion of the book’s themes with the author along with China specialists and leading Marxist scholars, followed by a Q&A session and book signing.
‘A major accomplishment … (combining) detailed historical analysis..with a keen sense of theory….’ David Laibman, Editor Emeritus, Science & Society
‘Extremely useful in all capitalist countries, especially those in the South’ Cheng Enfu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
‘An essential guide to negotiating the complex terrain of the agrarian class structure in pre-revolutionary China’ Utsa Patnaik, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
‘A masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution’, Ben Chacko, editor, Morning Star
Storming the Heavens sets peasant mass struggle centre-stage in the Chinese revolution: the peasant movement changed China and China changed the world. Revolutions, said Marx, project themselves towards the future: nothing could be more true than the case of China today with the special characteristics of its ongoing socialist modernisation rooted in this history of societal transformation.
There will be copies of the book available for purchase!
Speakers
- Jenny Clegg, author and researcher
- Vijay Prashad (video link), author and historian
- Cheng Enfu (video link), President of the World Association for Political Economy
- Michael Dutton, Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London
- John Foster, Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland
- Chair: Radhika Desai, Professor, University of Manitoba
