Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Perry, Li Xun

Overview

This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these three modes of militancy promoted by different types of leaders with differing agendas and motivations. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement. As they convincingly illustrate, the multiplicity of worker responses to the Cultural Revolution cautions against a one-dimensional portrait of working-class politics in contemporary China.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813321653
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	01/10/1997
Series:	Transitions Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

Elizabeth Perry

Table of Contents

Introduction — Radical Intellectuals — Rebels — Conservatives — A Cry for Justice — Renegade Rebels — Institutionalizing Rebel Gains — Conclusion