Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State

by Elizabeth J. Perry

This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese Revolution. The book begins with the origins of urban militias in the late nineteenth century and follows their development to the present day. Elizabeth J. Perry focuses on the institution of worker militias as a vehicle for analyzing the changing (yet enduring) impact of China's revolutionary heritage on subsequent state-society relations. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742539199
• ISBN13: 9780742539198
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"