Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

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by  Elizabeth J. Perry

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Anyuan
asia: local studies/global themes
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kären Wigen, and Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Editors
1. Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife,
by Robin M. LeBlanc
2. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography, edited by
Joshua A. Fogel
3. The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam,
by Hue-Tam Ho Tai
4. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader, edited by
Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
5. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953, by Susan L. Glosser

6. An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975), by Geremie R. Barmé

7. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa
Period, 1603–1868, by Marcia Yonemoto

8. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories, by Madeleine Yue Dong
9. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port
China, by Ruth Rogaski
10. Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in
Republican China, by Andrew D. Morris
11. Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan,
by Miyako Inoue
12. Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period,
by Mary Elizabeth Berry
13. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination,
by Anne Allison
14. After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and
My Lai, by Heonik Kwon
15. Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century
China, by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
16. Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century
China, by Paul A. Cohen
17. A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan,
1600–1912, by Kären Wigen

18. Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China,
by Thomas S. Mullaney
19. Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan,
by Andrew Gordon
20. Recreating Japanese Men, edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall
21. Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early
Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley
22. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great
Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld
23. Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender
24. Anyuan: Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition, by Elizabeth J. Perry
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Anyuan
Mining China’s Revolutionary Tradition
elizabeth j. perry
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Perry, Elizabeth J.
Anyuan : mining China’s revolutionary tradition / Elizabeth J.
Perry.
p. cm. —(Asia : local studies/global themes ; 24)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-520-27189-0 (cloth, alk. paper) —isbn 978-0-520-

27190-6 (pbk., alk. paper)
1. Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China : West)—Politics and

government—20th century. 2. Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng, China :

West)—Economic conditions—20th century. 3. Anyuan (Jiangxi

Sheng, China : West)—Social conditions—20th century.

4. Communism—China—Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)—History—

20th century. 5. Revolutions—Social aspects—China—Anyuan

(Jiangxi Sheng : West)—History—20th century. 6. Political

culture—China—Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)—History—20th

century. 7. Social change—China—Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)—

History—20th century. 8. Coal miners—China—Anyuan (Jiangxi

Sheng : West)—History—20th century. 9. Labor movement—

China—Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)—History—20th century.

10. Working class—China—Anyuan (Jiangxi Sheng : West)—

History—20th century. I. Title.

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