China's Anti-American Boycott Movement in 1905
Subtitle: A Study in Urban Protest (Studies in Modern Chinese History, Vol. 2)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780820452036
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; China - History - 20th Century; U.S. - China Relations; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; General; Asia - China; International Relations - General; Boycott; China; Guangxu, 1875-1908; History; Nationalism
Description: "This book examines the 1905 anti-American boycott movement, an important and yet neglected urban protest in Chinese social, political, and diplomatic history.

It focuses on some of the areas that have been overlooked by existing works; a comparative study of the urban history of two boycott centers, Shanghai and Guangzhou; the involvement of the Chinese overseas; the role of the boycott in the 1911 Revolution; the propaganda techniques and mobilization strategies of this social movement; and the impact of the event on Chinese foreign relations. This book also draws attention to the legacy of the boycott; the nonviolent boycott as a means of resisting foreign aggression became both the dominant form of anti-foreign protests and an endemic feature of political life during the first decades of the Chinese Republic.

The 1905 boycott, the author argues, signified the rise of the popular protests of twentieth-century China."--BOOK JACKET.