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Challenging the mandate of Heaven : social protest and state power in China /

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 soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perry, Elizabeth J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Colección:Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Predators and protectors : strategies of peasant survival
  • 2. Protective rebellion : tax protest in Late Qing China
  • 3. Heterdox rebellion? The mystery of Yellow Cliff
  • 4. Predatory rebellion : Bai Lang and social banditry
  • 5. Skilled workers and the Chinese revolution : strikes among Shanghai silk weavers, 1927-1937
  • 6. Labor divided : sources of state formation in modern China
  • 7. Contradictions under socialism : Shanghai's strike weave of 1957
  • 8. Working at cross-purposes : Shanghai labor in the cultural revolution
  • 9. Rural violence in socialist China
  • 10. Casting a Chinese "democracy" movement : legacies of social fragmentation.