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David Strand Rickshaw Beijing (Paperback) (US IMPORT)
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- Condition
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- Book Title
- Rickshaw Beijing
- Title
- Rickshaw Beijing
- Subtitle
- City People and Politics in the 1920s
- ISBN-10
- 0520082869
- EAN
- 9780520082861
- ISBN
- 9780520082861
- Genre
- Law & Politics
- Topic
- History
- Release Date
- 27/04/1993
- Release Year
- 1993
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s
- Item Height
- 229 mm
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Subject
- Government, History
- Item Weight
- 544 g
- Item Width
- 152 mm
- 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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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520082861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96016622
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
388 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s
Publication Year
1993
Subject
Government, History
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
544 g
Item Width
152 mm
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United States
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