1st Edition

Proletarian Power Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution

By Elizabeth Perry, Li Xun Copyright 1997
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these three modes of militancy promoted by different types of leaders with differing agendas... Read more
Introduction -- Radical Intellectuals -- Rebels -- Conservatives -- A Cry for Justice -- Renegade Rebels -- Institutionalizing Rebel Gains -- Conclusion

Biography

Elizabeth Perry