Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State (State and Society in East Asia)

by ElizabethJ.Perry (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $48.09

  Explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese revolution. This book raises fascinating questions about the construction of revolutionary citizenship; the distinctions among class, community, and creed; the open-ended character of revolutionary movements; and the path dependency of institutional change.