Resistance in Colonial and Communist China, 1950-1963: Anatomy of a Riot

ISBN-13: 9780367670337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 126 str.

R. B. E. Price

Opis

This book challenges traditional concepts of the British colonial government and its attitude towards communist China, and debates surrounding Britain’s colonial past.

Spis treści

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Communist Anatomy (1950 to 1955)

Introduction

1. Colonial Recognitions











2. The Anti-Rightist Purge in Mainland China

Chapter 2 The Colonial Anatomy: The 1956 Riot

Introduction

1. Who Started the Riot of 1956?











2. A Hapless Civilian and his Widow











3. Anatomical questions

Chapter 3 1963

Introduction

1. The Crackdown Begins











2. British Admissions











3. The Hyatt Americans











4. History of KMT Enemy Status

Chapter 4 Anatomies Examined

Introduction

1. The Colonial Anatomy











2. The Communist Anatomy











3. The KMT Anatomy

Chapter 5 Orthodoxy

Introduction

1. Orthodoxy and Technical Knowledge











2. Human Rights and the New Imperialism

Index

O autorze

R.B.E. Price is a Lecturer-at-Law at Southern Cross University, Australia and has held visiting professorships across China. His other publications include Reading Colonies: Property and Control of the British Far East (2016, City University Press of Hong Kong), the biography of a Hong Kong land officer, Going Native: The Passions of Philip Jacks (2016, Australian Scholarly Publishing) and Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology (forthcoming). His current project is a theoretical work, ‘On Occupation’.