Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution (Transitions--Asia and Asian America) - Softcover

Perry, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813321654 ISBN 13: 9780813321653

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Elizabeth Perry

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813321654
• ISBN 13: 9780813321653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264