| Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution Contributor(s): Perry, Elizabeth (Author), Xun, Li (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813321654 ISBN-13: 9780813321653 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement, convincingly illustrating the complexity of working-class politics in contemporary China. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - Political Science | World - Asian |
| Dewey: 322.410 |
| LCCN: 96042940 |
| Lexile Measure: 1500 |
| Series: Transitions: Asia & Asian America |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 different types of leaders with differing agendas and motivations. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement. As they convincingly illustrate, the multiplicity of worker responses to the Cultural Revolution cautions against a one-dimensional portrait of working-class politics in contemporary China. |