Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry

by Robert Cliver

Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused on the 1950s, the book compares two very different groups of silk workers and their experiences in the revolution. Male silk weavers in Shanghai factories enjoyed close ties to the Communist party-state and benefited greatly from socialist policies after 1949...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067424446X
• ISBN13: 9780674244467
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"