Wretched Rebels Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution |
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| Author:
| Bianco, Lucien |
| Translator:
| Liddell, Philip |
| Series title: | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-03542-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2010 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University, Asia Center
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $78.95 |
Book Description:
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Bianco focuses on "spontaneous" rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. The author shows that predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against state agents, and suggests that 20th-century Chinese peasants were less different from 17th- or 18th-century French peasants than might be imagined.
Bianco focuses on "spontaneous" rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. The author shows that predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against state agents, and suggests that 20th-century Chinese peasants were less different from 17th- or 18th-century French peasants than might be imagined.