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Writing Chinese labour history: changes and continuities in labour historiography.
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Labour/Le Travail
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- McQuaide, Shiling
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IN THE 1980s, THE AUTHORS of most historical studies in China began to move in new directions owing to a combination of internal changes and outside influences. Conversely, studies of pre-1949 labour movements in China continue to reflect a perspective that is largely monolithic. While Chinese social historians tend to be, in many ways, innovative and forward-thinking, historians whose primary focus is labour often persist in defending, and even advocating, Maoist jargon. North American New Labour History, together with Women's Studies and Slavery Studies, continue to be shaped by the climate of thought peculiar to the West in the 1960s. Chinese labour historians have been ...