Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution

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University of California Press, 1 sep. 2023 - 336 sidor
Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China.

Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasizes the anarchist contribution to revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the Chinese revolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide.

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Introduction Anarchism and Revolutionary Discourse
1
Nationalism Utopianism and Revolutionary Politics Anarchist Themes in the Early Chinese Revolutionary Movement
47
Science Morality and Revolution Anarchism and the Origins of Social Revolutionary Thought in China
78
Anarchists against Socialists in Early Republican China
116
Radical Culture and Cultural Revolution Anarchism in the May Fourth Movement
148
The Anarchist Alternative in Chinese Socialism 19211927
197
The Revolution That Never Was Anarchism in the Guomindang
248
Aftermath and Afterthoughts
286
Bibliography
305
Index
317
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Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University. He is the author of Revolution and History: Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919-1937 (California, 1978) and The Origins of Chinese Communism (1989).

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