Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century China: Volume 21

by Albert Feuerwerker

Popular rebellion in China was usually the undertaking of the mostly illiterate lower classes, sometimes inspired or assisted by a handful of disaffected intellectuals. The written record of these events is, on the other hand, overwhelmingly the product of literate men of power and wealth who suppressed these challenges to their authority and status. Added to this imbalance in the written record, an inverse problem has emerged in twentieth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892640219
• ISBN13: 9780892640218
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.