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Taiwan's peasant movement in the 1920s and 1930s was intimately intertwined with that of the Third International (Comintern) and Japan's tenant unionism and, to a lesser extent, to the peasant uprisings in China. During the ten-year span between 1924 and 1934, leaders of the peasant union helped to awaken peasants' social/economic consciousness. The historic movement, the emotional speeches, the underground publications, and the famous legal battles all helped the islanders to learn about many hitherto totally alien concepts of socialism and Western democracy, including surplus value,...

A colorful portrait of the greatest of the Ming emperors. Builder of the Great Wall, Yongle (1368-1644) also moved the capital to Beijing and built the Forbidden City, completed the Grand Canal, strengthened the court bureaucracy, and explored the world.

The eunuchs are shown to be not just a minor adjunct to a government of civil...

How have the Chinese fared in America? What motivated them to come here in the nineteenth century? How were they received by native Americans? These are some of the questions that Henry Tsai deals with in this important new book. He treats the nineteenth-century immigration experience, the development of early Chinese communities, American exclusion and the difficulties of living in the shadow of exclusion, and the Chinese community in the post-World War II era and today. Also covered are Chinese women in conemporary American society, the problems with children and youth in a multiracial...