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

by S.A. Smith

Book Overview

In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents--journalistic accounts of strikes, memoirs by former activists, police records--to argue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327937
• ISBN13: 9780822327936
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"