Proletarian Power

Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution

By: Elizabeth Perry, Li Xun

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Paperback | 10 January 1997 | Edition Number 1

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This path breaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labour activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. labour, 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 labour 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.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Asian History Industry & Industrial Studies Industrial Relations, Health & Safety Industrial Relations Trade Unions Politics & Government Political Activism Demonstrations & Protest Movements Earliest Times to Present Day

20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945 Miscellaneous Items

Transitions: Asia and Asian America	p. iii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Acronyms	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Radical Intellectuals Red Guards and Literati Rebels	p. 7
Rebels The Workers' General Headquarters	p. 29
Conservatives The Scarlet Guards	p. 71
A Cry for Justice The Wind of Economism	p. 97
Renegade Rebels Regiments and Lian Si	p. 119
Institutionalizing Rebel Gains	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 189
Notes	p. 197
Selected Bibliography	p. 233
About the Book And Authors	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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