Modern China articles from October 1997

Modern China archives from October 1997

Narrativizing revolution: the Guangzhou Uprising (11-13 December 1927) in workers' perspective.
October 1, 1997... At 3:30 a.m. on 11 December 1927, military units and worker Red Guards under Communist control launched an uprising in Guangzhou. Around six o'clock that morning, when the uprising had achieved control over most of Guangzhou, the Communist...

Law, law, what law?: why Western scholars of Chinese history and society have not had more to say about its law.
October 1, 1997... The first substantive question posed to me as I commenced my graduate work in Chinese studies during the autumn of 1972 was by the late Professor Arthur Wright, who inquired why I, as a young man of seeming intelligence, was intent on...

Warlords, bullies, and state building in Nationalist China: the Guangdong cooperative movement, 1932-1936.
October 1, 1997... The cooperative movement of the Nationalist period by all accounts was not a great success. When the Nationalist government promoted cooperatives in Jiangxi province, ostensibly to alleviate rural poverty and compete with local Communists...

The "three lords" of Qiyang county: military office and local elite power in Republican China. (profiles of commanders Zhou Lan, Liu Xing and Jiang Fusheng)
October 1, 1997... Military force became an increasingly important base for elite power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China as a result of frequent warfare and political turmoil. Although it did not have the same status as educational or other cultural...