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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797282403321

Autore

Perry Elizabeth J.

Titolo

Challenging the mandate of Heaven : social protest and state power in China / / Elizabeth J. Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70586-9

1-317-47512-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Asia and the Pacific

Disciplina

303.6/095

Soggetti

Protest movements - China - History - 19th century

Protest movements - China - History - 20th century

Political culture - China - History - 19th century

Political culture - China - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An East Gate Book."

First published 2002 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""1 Predators and Protectors: Strategies of Peasant Survival ""; ""2 Protective Rebellion: Tax Protest in Late Qing China ""; ""3 Heterodox 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 Wave 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 ""; ""Index ""