Beschreibung:
"Specialists and general readers alike will delight in the stories that Smith tells. This perceptive and original book abounds in good ideas and gems of scholarship and draws on a formidable range of theories. Few historians of China could match this range of expertise."--Gregor Benton, University of Wales, Cardiff
Contents - Traditional social networks and identities; Nationalist and labor protest at the end of the Qing dynasty; The 1911 revolution in Shanghai; Nationalist and labor protest, 1913-19; The May Fourth Movement of 1919; The discourse of class; The Communists attempt to organize labor. 1920-23; Workers and the nation - Left versus Right, 1923-25; The May Thirtieth Movement, 1925; National and class identities, 1925-27; The surge in labor organization, 1927; Climax of the National Revolution, March-April 1927