Patrolling the Revolution Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State

Name: Patrolling the Revolution Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State
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ISBN: 9780742539198

ISBN-10: 0742539199

ISBN-13: 9780742539198

Edition: 2007

Authors: Elizabeth Perry

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This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese revolution. The book begins with the origins of urban militias in the late nineteenth century and follows their development down to the present day. Elizabeth Perry focuses on the institution of worker militias as a vehicle for analyzing the changing (yet enduring) impact of China's revolutionary heritage on subsequent state-society relations. She also incorporates a strong comparative perspective, examining the influence of revolutionary militias on the political trajectories of the United States, France, the Soviet Union, and Iran. Based on exhaustive archival research, the work…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.01" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Antonio Negri is an independent researcher and writer. He has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua.Sebastian Heilmann is Professor of Comparative Government and the Political Economy of China at the University of Trier.Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Institutional Origins



Shanghai's Three Armed Uprisings. 1926-1927



China's First Leninist Party-State, 1927-1949



China's Second Leninist Party-State, 1949-1965



The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976



Patrolling the Post-Mao Reforms


Conclusion


Appendix


Index


About the Author