Like Cattle and Horses - Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927

Informationen zum Autor Steve Smith is Professor of History at the University of Essex, England. He is the author of A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920–1922; Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917–18; and coeditor of Notes of a Red Guard. Klappentext "Specialists and general readers alike will delight in the stories that Smith tells. This perceptive and original book abounds in good ideas and gems of scholarship and draws on a formidable range of theories. Few historians of China could match this range of expertise."--Gregor Benton, University of Wales, Cardiff Zusammenfassung Connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated "like cattle and horses" (a line from an anonymous worker's poem on poor working conditions) derived from a fresh but powerfully felt sense of dignity.

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• Authors: S A Smith, S. A. Smith, S.A. Smith
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.04.2002
• EAN: 9780822327936
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2793-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Comparative and International; Comparative and International Working-Class History; Comparative and International Working-Class History; Comparative and International
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous