Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
Social Protest and State Power in China
Published on 20. May 2015
352 pages
978-1-317-47512-5 (ISBN)
Description
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back to the third century B.C. This book, by bringing together studies of protest that span the imperial, Republican, and Communist eras, 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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
Illustrations
index
File size
1,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-47512-5 (9781317475125)
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Person
Elizabeth J. Perry is Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University. Born in China, she was educated at William Smith College (B.A. summa cum laude), The University of Washington (M.A.), and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.). Before moving to Harvard, she taught at the universities of Arizona, Washington, and California (Berkeley). Professor Perry has written widely on Chinese popular movements from the nineteenth century to the present. Her previous books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 (1980); Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor (1993); Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (with Li Xun) (1997); and Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (with Jeffrey Wasserstrom) (1994).
Content
Chapter 1 Predators and Protectors: Strategies of Peasant Survival; Chapter 2 Protective Rebellion: Tax Protest in Late Qing China; Chapter 3 Heterodox Rebellion? The Mystery of Yellow Cliff; Chapter 4 Predatory Rebellion: Bai Lang and Social Banditry; Chapter 5 Skilled Workers and the Chinese Revolution: Strikes Among Shanghai Silk Weavers, 1927-1937; Chapter 6 Labor Divided: Sources of State Formation in Modern China; Chapter 7 Contradictions under Socialism: Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957; Chapter 8 Working at Cross-Purposes: Shanghai Labor in the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 9 Rural Violence in Socialist China; Chapter 10 Casting a Chinese "Democracy" Movement: Legacies of Social Fragmentation;
