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Challenging the Mandate of Heaven : Social Protest and State Power in China.

Perry, Elizabeth J.

Challenging the Mandate of Heaven : Social Protest and State Power in China. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (377 pages)

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.

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.

9781315705866


Political culture -- China -- History -- 20th century.


Electronic books.

DS761.2 -- .P47 2015eb

303.6/095

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