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This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using ...

This book will be of special interest to students and scholars of Marxism, revolution, and 'third-world' politics, and historians of modern China.

This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using ...

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Exploring how each Chinatown is different, this book explains how a unique culture developed and outlines their basic cultural, social, and political features. It highlights the unique features of the different Chinatowns surveyed. It includes a photo essay of historical snapshots of Chinatowns across the globe.

This book examines the qiaopi from two interconnected perspectives. One views qiaopi from a political and institutional angle, the other from a financial and social angle. Taking an empirical approach, the contributors employ a wide range of primary sources in both Chinese and English.

This book, first pubished in 1998, collects the final letters and articles of Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). He founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, and between 1915 and 1919 he led the New Culture Movement that electrified student youth and laid the intellectual foundations for modern China.

How poetry and revolution meshed in Red China

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This study looks at the first three years of the Chinese Communists' New Fourth Army, between spring 1938 and January 1941. Current interest centers on its role as a division of the general movement of Chinese Communism at war.

Chinese Trotskyism was the most creative and influential opposition to emerge within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) between its founding and its taking power in 1949. It included Chen Duxiu, founder and early leader of the CCP, whose ideas inspired generations of Chinese youth, including those involved in the events of 1989. This study traces the origins and history of Chinese Trotskyism from 1921 through 1952.

Including seven original case studies on international uprisings in the first half of the early 20th century, this title challenges traditional view of Chinese migrants as without any interest in political issues.

The Chinese are among Europe's oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic minorities, governments, and researchers. This volume opens up and delineates this new field of European overseas Chinese studies, reporting on pioneering research on the Chinese in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands,...

Presents the story of the involvement of overseas Chinese in labour and social-revolutionary movements and internationalism.

Mao: The Unknown Story" portrays Mao as a monster - equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin - and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. This book brings together sixteen reviews of "Mao: The Unknown Story" by some of the internationally well-regarded specialists in modern Chinese history.

Prophets Unarmed is an authoritative sourcebook on the Chinese Communist Party's main early opposition. The Opposition's standpoints and proposals and its association with the democratic movement are not without relevance to China's present crisis of morals and authority.

Drawing on numerous oral history interviews with survivors, this study of Chinese Trotskyism is exhaustive and groundbreaking.

The Chinese are among Europe's oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic minorities, governments, and researchers. This volume opens up and delineates this new field of European overseas Chinese studies, reporting on pioneering research on the Chinese in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands,...

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to great fanfare. This book demonstrates that their portrayal of Maobook is selective and inaccurate, and that although Mao did have many faults and was responsible for some disastrous policies, a much more balanced picture is needed.