Ebook: Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution
Author: Arif Dirlik
- Tags: Anarchism, China, History, 20th century, China, History, 20th century, Revolutions, China, History, 20th century, JUVENILE NONFICTION, Social Science, General, Anarchism, China
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkeley, China, China
- Edition: Rep. ed.
- Language: English
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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.
Review
"A first rate piece of scholarship, accessible to both general readers and China specialists. . . . This book should stand for some time as the definitive study of the Chinese anarchist movement of the early twentieth century."--John A. Rapp, "Journal of Interdisciplinary History
About the Author
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).