Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution / by Andrew G. Walder

• Autore: Walder Andrew G (Andrew George), <1953->
• Pubblicazione: 2020; Ann Arbor : , : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, , 1978; ©1978
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 150 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.9/51/13205
• Soggetto topico: History / Asia / China; History
• Soggetto geografico: China Politics and government 1949-1976; Shanghai (China) Politics and government
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: SOC000000SOC008000
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 143-150.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Introduction -- II. Chang Ch'un-ch'iao's Political and Organizational Background -- Ts'ao Ti-ch'iu's Political and Organizational Background -- III. The Cultural Campaign: May-August 1966 -- IV. Ts'ao Ti-ch'iu and the Early Red Guard Movement in Shanghai -- Shanghai Red Guard Opposition to the MPC -- The Spiral of Conflict: Peking Red Guards Enter Shanghai -- Internal MPC Debates about Dissident Red Guards -- Mao's Self-Clarification: The October Party Work Conference -- V. The Central Dilemma: Revolution and Production -- Workers Enter the Cultural Revolution--The Anting Incident -- The MPC's Arguments against Worker Organizations -- The Development of Mass Factionalism and the Paralysis of Municipal Government -- The "Liberation Daily" Incident and the Polarization of Factions -- Ts'ao's Abdication and the Development of Anarchy -- VI. The Socioeconomic Origins of "Economism -- Sources of Popular Discontent -- The Worker-Peasant System -- Youth Mobilization System -- Resulting Grievances and Conflicts -- Apprentices -- Sent-down Youths -- Sent-down Permanent Workers and Suburban Peasants -- Contract and Temporary Labor -- Permanent Workers -- Social Conditions in Shanghai--December -- Massive Population Influx -- Food, Commodity Shortages and Increased Unemployment -- Trigger Incidents for Economic Paralysis: December 26-31 -- CCRG Decision of December 26 -- General Upsurge of Economic Demands -- The Scarlet Exodus and General Strike -- The Effects of Economism -- VII. Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and the January Revolution -- Stage One--Establishing a Rationale for Action -- Stage Two--Strike-Breaking and Political Organizing -- The Deterioration of Chang's Mass Support -- Stage Three--The Commune/Revolutionary Committee. ; VIII. Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and the Politics of Demobilization -- Halting Attacks on Industrial and Administrative Cadres -- Returning Students to School -- Returning Youths to the Countryside -- Resolving the Issue of Worker Economic Demands -- Restoring Order in Shanghai's Neighborhoods -- Shanghai in the Summer of 1967 -- IX. Conclusions -- Interpretive Shifts -- The January Revolution -- Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Chinese "Radicalism -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Organizational Structure and Political Conflict -- Social Structure and Political Conflict -- Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and the Politics of Social Change -- Chronology of Events -- Notes -- Sources.
• Sommario/riassunto: Shanghai's January Revolution was a highly visible and, by all accounts, crucially important event in China's Cultural Revolution. Its occurrence, along with the subsequent attempt to establish a "commune" form of municipal government, has greatly shaped our understanding both of the goals originally envisaged for the Cultural Revolution by its leaders and of the political positions held by the new corps of Party leaders thrust upward during its course-most notably Chang Ch'un ch'iao. At this interpretive level, the events in Shanghai seem to embody in microcosm the issues and conflicts in Chinese politics during the Cultural Revolution as a whole, while at the same time shaping our conception of what these larger issues and conflicts were. At the more general, theoretical level, however, the events in Shanghai provide us with an unusual opportunity (thanks to Red Guard raids on Party offices) to view the internal workings of the Party organization under a period of stress and to observe unrestrained interest group formation and mass political conflict through the press accounts provided by these unofficial groups themselves. The January Revolution thus provides us with an opportunity to develop better our more abstract, theoretical understanding of the functioning of the Chinese political system and the dynamics of the social system in which it operates.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chang Ch’un-ch’iao and Shanghai’s January Revolution
• ISBN: 9780472901807; 047290180X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910433156403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies