Rebellion Rhymes: Intergroup Cleavage and the Early Chinese Communist Revolution

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of China: Republican and Maoist Era

Brief Overview

Taiping Rebellion increased Communist activities in Chinese counties in the 1930s, because Hakkas were strengthened in the former rebellion and willing to support new rebels. We use spatial RDD to test it. This speaks to civil war reoccurrence.

Authors

• Erik H Wang, New York University

• Shuren Zheng, Washington University in St Louis