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Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920's by Strand New+=
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- Condition
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- 1993-04-27
- ISBN
- 9780520082861
- EAN
- 9780520082861
- Book Title
- Rickshaw Beijing : City People and Politics in the 1920s
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Asia / General, Asia / China
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 388 Pages
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In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society--were debated and fought over. People were drawn into this conflicts because they knew that the passage of armies, the marching of protesters, the pontificating of intellectual, and the opening and closing of factories could change their lives. David Strand offers a penetrating view of the old walled capital of Beijing during these years by examining how the residents coped with the changes wrought by itinerant soldiers and politicians and by the accelerating movement of ideas, capital, and technology. By looking at the political experiences of ordinary citizens, including rickshaw pullers, policemen, trade unionists, and Buddhist monks, Strand provides fascinating insights into how deeply these forces were felt. The resulting portrait of early twentieth-century Chinese urban society stresses the growing political sophistication of ordinary people educated by mass movements, group politics, and participation in a shared, urban culture that mixed opera and demonstrations, newspaper reading and teahouse socializing. Surprisingly, in the course of absorbing new ways of living, working, and doing politics, much of the old society was preserved--everything seemed to change and yet little of value was discarded. Through tumultuous times, Beijing rose from a base of local and popular politics to form a bridge linking a traditional world of guilds and gentry elites with the contemporary world of corporatism and cadres.
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University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520082869
ISBN-13
9780520082861
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700657
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rickshaw Beijing : City People and Politics in the 1920s
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Asia / General, Asia / China
Publication Year
1993
Genre
History
Number of Pages
388 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
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Table of Content
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Romanization and Currency I. A Twentieth-Century Walled City 2. The Rickshaw: Machine for a Mixed-up Age 3. Rickshaw Men: Careers of the Laboring Poor 4· Policemen as Mediators and Street-Level ~ureaucrats 5· Jeweler, Banker, and Restaurateur: Power Struggles in the Beijing Chamber of Commerce 6. Profits and People's Livelihood: The Politics of Streetcar Development 7· Bosses, Guilds, and Work Gangs: Labor Politics and the Sprouts of Unionism 8. Citizens in a New Public Sphere: Widening Circles of Political Participation 9· City People Under Siege: The Impact of Warlordism IO. Union and Faction: Organized Labor in the Wake of the Northern Expedition 11. Machine-Breakers: The Streetcar Riot of October 22, I929 I2. Order and Movement in City Politics Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1989
Lccn
88-015571
Illustrated
Yes
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