Wretched Rebels: Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution [French]

by Lucien Bianco

This book, a condensed translation of the prize- winning Jacqueries et r volution dans la Chine du XXe si cle, focuses on "spontaneous" rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. Yet it raises issues inspired by the perennial concerns of revolutionary leaders, such as peasant "class consciousness" and China's modernization.

The author shows that the predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 0674035429
• ISBN13: 9780674035423
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"