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Online-Ressource (340 p)
ISBN:
9781563248399
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Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes works on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific. The leading specialist on China's twentieth century peasant resistance reexamines, in bold and original ways, the question: Was the Chinese peasantry a revolutionary force? Where most scholarly attention has focused on Communist-led peasant movements, Bianco's story is one of peasant thought and action largely unmediated by modern political parties. This volume pays particular attention to the firs
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Secret Societies and Peasant Self-Defense, 1921-1933; 2. Reflections on Chinese Peasants and Revolution; 3. A Peasant Revolution?; 4. How Credible Are the Numbers?; 5. Peasant Uprisings Against Poppy-Tax Collection inSuxian and Lingbi (Anhui) in 1932; 6. The Responses of Opium Growers to EradicationCampaigns and the Poppy Tax, 1907-1949; 7. Resistance to Land Rent, 1895-1949; 8. Looting and Food Riots; 9. Early Twentieth-Century Xiedou
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10. Xiedou during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century11. Peasant Responses to the Chinese Communist PartyMobilization Policies, 1937-1945; 12. Peasant Resistance in the PRC; 13. Weak Weapons; Appendix 1: Time Distribution of Rural Disturbances; Appendix 2: Cases of Peasant Resistance to Opium Eradication Campaigns, 1907-1949; Appendix 3: Cases of Peasant Resistance to Opium Tax, 1896-1949; Appendix 4: Geographical Distribution of Tenant Disturbances(1895-1949) According to Various Sources; Appendix 5: Differences and Convergences BetweenBernhardt's and My Own Views
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Glossary of Chinese TermsIndex
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317463108
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781563248399
Additional Edition:
Print version Peasants without the Party: Grassroots Movements in Twentieth Century China
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English
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