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Patrolling the revolution : worker militias, citizenship, and the modern Chinese state / Elizabeth J. Perry.
Lippincott Library HD5830.A6 P47 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Elizabeth J.
- Series:
- State and society in East Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--China.
- Working class.
- Militia movements.
- China.
- Militia movements--China.
- Revolutionaries--China.
- Revolutionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Worker militias, citizenship, and the modern Chinese state
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
- Summary:
- This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese revolution. The book begins with the origins of urban militias in the late nineteenth century and follows their development down to the present day.
- Contents:
- 1 Institutional Origins 29
- 2 Shanghai's Three Armed Uprisings, 1926-1927 59
- 3 China's First Leninist Party-State, 1927-1949 105
- 4 China's Second Leninist Party-State, 1949-1965 153
- 5 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 207
- 6 Patrolling the Post-Mao Reforms 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742539180
- OCLC:
- 58986033
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