Elizabeth J. Perry

Challenging the Mandate of Heaven (eBook, ePUB)

Social Protest and State Power in China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back to the third century B.C. This book, by bringing together studies of protest that span the imperial, Republican, and Communist eras, introduces Chinese patterns and provides a forum to consider ways in which contentious politics in China might serve to reinforce, refine or reshape theories derived from Western cases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317475125
• Artikelnr.: 42900816

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth J. Perry is Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University. Born in China, she was educated at William Smith College (B.A. summa cum laude), The University of Washington (M.A.), and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.). Before moving to Harvard, she taught at the universities of Arizona, Washington, and California (Berkeley). Professor Perry has written widely on Chinese popular movements from the nineteenth century to the present. Her previous books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 (1980); Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor (1993); Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (with Li Xun) (1997); and Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (with Jeffrey Wasserstrom) (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Predators and Protectors: Strategies of Peasant Survival
Chapter 2 Protective Rebellion: Tax Protest in Late Qing China
Chapter 3 Heterodox Rebellion? The Mystery of Yellow Cliff
Chapter 4 Predatory Rebellion: Bai Lang and Social Banditry
Chapter 5 Skilled Workers and the Chinese Revolution: Strikes Among Shanghai Silk Weavers, 1927-1937
Chapter 6 Labor Divided: Sources of State Formation in Modern China
Chapter 7 Contradictions under Socialism: Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957
Chapter 8 Working at Cross-Purposes: Shanghai Labor in the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 9 Rural Violence in Socialist China
Chapter 10 Casting a Chinese "Democracy" Movement: Legacies of Social Fragmentation