Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution
By: Arif Dirlik
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berkeley, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780520082649
Copyright date: 1991
Description: 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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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; label: 1.
title: Introduction: Anarchism and Revolutionary Discourse
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: Nationalism, Utopianism, and Revolutionary Politics: Anarchist Themes in the Early Chinese Revolutionary Movement
pagenum: 47; label: 3.
title: Science, Morality, and Revolution: Anarchism and the Origins of Social Revolutionary Thought in China
pagenum: 78; label: 4.
title: Anarchists against Socialists in Early Republican China
pagenum: 116; label: 5.
title: Radical Culture and Cultural Revolution: Anarchism in the May Fourth Movement
pagenum: 148; label: 6.
title: The Anarchist Alternative in Chinese Socialism, 1921–1927
pagenum: 197; label: 7.
title: The Revolution That Never Was: Anarchism in the Guomindang
pagenum: 248; label: 8.
title: Aftermath and Afterthoughts
pagenum: 286; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 305; title: Index
pagenum: 317