Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China: Social Protest and State Power in China 0765604450, 9780765604453
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Predators and Protectors: Strategies of Peasant Survival
2 Protective Rebellion: Tax Protest in Late Qing China
3 Heterodox Rebellion? The Mystery of Yellow Cliff
4 Predatory Rebellion: Bai Lang and Social Banditry
5 Skilled Workers and the Chinese Revolution: Strikes Among Shanghai Silk Weavers, 1927-1937
6 Labor Divided: Sources of State Formation in Modern China
7 Contradictions under Socialism: Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957
8 Working at Cross-Purposes: Shanghai Labor in the Cultural Revolution
9 Rural Violence in Socialist China
10 Casting a Chinese "Democracy" Movement: Legacies of Social Fragmentation
Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Predators and Protectors: Strategies of Peasant Survival
2 Protective Rebellion: Tax Protest in Late Qing China
3 Heterodox Rebellion? The Mystery of Yellow Cliff
4 Predatory Rebellion: Bai Lang and Social Banditry
5 Skilled Workers and the Chinese Revolution: Strikes Among Shanghai Silk Weavers, 1927-1937
6 Labor Divided: Sources of State Formation in Modern China
7 Contradictions under Socialism: Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957
8 Working at Cross-Purposes: Shanghai Labor in the Cultural Revolution
9 Rural Violence in Socialist China
10 Casting a Chinese "Democracy" Movement: Legacies of Social Fragmentation
Index
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- Elizabeth J. Perry
