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Article: Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State
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- The China Journal
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- January 1, 2008
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Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State, by Elizabeth J. Perry. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xii + 359 pp. US$39.95 (hardcover).
This excellent and readable book, written from archives in Shanghai, Beijing and Taibei, analyzes transformations since the 1920s in China's "proletarian patrols", the militias that have acted as the revolution's vanguard and custodian. A companion volume to Shanghai on Strike (Stanford 1993), which focused on labor's social origins and politics, it examines the ties between the Shanghai workers' movement and the development of the modern Chinese state. It concludes with a chapter comparing China's militias ...
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