Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780367317461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Elizabeth Perry;Li Xun

Opis

This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these three modes of militancy promoted by d

Spis treści

Introduction, 1 Radical Intellectuals: Red Guards and Literati Rebels, 2 Rebels: The Workers' General Headquarters, 3 Conservatives: The Scarlet Guards, 4 A Cry for Justice: The Wind of Economism, 5 Renegade Rebels: Regiments and Lian Si, 6 Institutionalizing Rebel Gains, 7 Conclusion

O autorze

Elizabeth J. Perry is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley.Li Xun is a visiting researcher in the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley.