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

• Autore: Perry Elizabeth J.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/095; 303.60951
• Soggetto topico: Protest movements - China - History - 19th century; Protest movements - China - History - 20th century; Political culture - China - History - 19th century; Political culture - China - History - 20th century
• 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 ""
• Sommario/riassunto: A discussion of protest in China, spanning the Imperial, Republic and Communist eras. It introduces Chinese patterns and provides a forum to consider ways in which contentious politics in China might serve to reinforce, refine or reshape theories derived from western cases.
• Titolo autorizzato: Challenging the mandate of heaven
• ISBN: 1-315-70586-9; 1-317-47512-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959423403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia and the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.)