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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315705866
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Challenging the Mandate of HeavenDDC classification:
  • 303.6/095
LOC classification:
  • DS761.2 -- .P47 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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