Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution (Transitions-Asia & Asian America) 1st Edition by Elizabeth Perry (PDF)

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This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement, convincingly illustrating the complexity of working-class politics in contemporary China. }This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes through these three modes of militancy promoted by different types of leaders with differing agendas and motivations. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, the authors probe the divergent political, psychocultural, and socioeconomic strains within the Shanghai labor movement. As they convincingly illustrate, the multiplicity of worker responses to the Cultural Revolution cautions against a one-dimensional portrait of working-class politics in contemporary China. }

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⭐It is necessary to me for investigation.

⭐It’s not possible to write simply?I found many assumptions with a subjective bias.I felt confused when reading the conclusions.

⭐The topic of this book is actually more limited than the title suggests. Principally, Perry studies the lives and dispositions of the leading figures in different factions in the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai. She divides these into three groups – the conservatives, rebels and “wind of economism”. The conservatives are pro-regime loyalists associated with the attempt to elevate the children of cadres into an even more privileged position. The so-called worker-rebels consisted mainly of people who had been unfairly treated or passed-over for opportunities, who were seeking retribution on their oppressors and upward mobility. The wind of economism is the most grassroots aspect, in which workers used the general climate of criticism and unrest to press for concrete demands such as permanent jobs and pay increases. The book is strongest in showing the nuances of involvement, and rebutting the idea of a homogeneous social structure leading to homogeneous revolt, and also the idea that the Cultural Revolution was simply a top-down leadership contest. The biographies and discussion make clear both that the rebel factions were expressing real grievances (often concealed in regime rhetoric), and that the revolution was ultimately limited by the continuation of centralised, hierarchical power.The major limit to the work is that it sometimes neglects the bigger picture. The focus on micro-history sometimes occurs at the expense of macro-history, and I’ve sene other works which make clearer for instance the relationship between university/career progression, class labels, and factional alignment (i.e. Chan, Rosen and Unger’s article “Students and Class Warfare” and Hong Yung Lee’s “Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution”). The title is also somewhat misleading because only the section on economism really deals with workers’ power as such – though of course all factions used “proletarian power” as a slogan.

⭐very good!

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