Japanese and Chinese immigrant activists : organizing in American and international Communist movements, 1919-1933 / Josephine Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, Josephine.

, Funded by Knowledge Unlatched, Author.

Contributor:

funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communist Party of the United States of America--History.

Communist Party of the United States of America.

Japanese Americans--Politics and government.

Japanese Americans.

Chinese Americans--Politics and government.

Chinese Americans.

Immigrants--Political activity--United States.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Japanese & Chinese immigrant activists

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Josephine Fowler was a visiting assistant professor in the American studies department at Macalester College and a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. She died from breast cancer at age forty-nine, not long after the completion of this book.

Summary:

Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists, Josephine Fowler brings us the first in-depth account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific. Drawing on multilingual correspondence between left-wing and party members and other primary sources, such as records from branches of the Japanese Workers Association and the Chinese Nationalist Party, Fowler shows how pressures from the Comintern for various sub-groups of the party to unite as an “American” working class were met with resistance. The book also challenges longstanding stereotypes about the relationships among the Communist Party in the United States, the Comintern, and the Soviet Party.

Contents:

Origins and beginnings

Historical background

Study groups, the Oriental Branch, and "hands-off China" demonstrations

From the top down

"The red capital of the great bolshevik republic"

Advancing bolshevism from Moscow outward and back and forth across the Pacific

From the bottom up

From East to West and West to East

Left-wing Chinese immigrant activists

Chinese workers in America

Formation of the Oriental Branch of the ILD.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-262) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611092603

0978813543543

9781281092601

1281092606

9780813543543

0813543541

OCLC:

476118273

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access