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Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (Transitions--Asia and Asian America)
Proletarian Power Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution - Transitions--Asia and Asian America Author:Elizabeth J. Perry, Li Xun, Xun Li This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofor... more »e inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement, convincingly illustrating the complexity of working-class politics in contemporary China.« less