Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 p)
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ill., map
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0813540410
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9780813540412
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9780813540405
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0813540402
Content:
Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists, Josephine Fowler brings us the fir
Content:
Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activis
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-262) and index
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Illustrations; Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Origins and Beginnings; Chapter 1: Historical Background; Chapter 2: Study Groups, the Oriental Branch, and "Hands Off China" Demonstrations; PART II: From the Top Down; Chapter 3: "The Red Capital of the Great Bolshevik Republic"; Chapter 4: Advancing Bolshevism from Moscow Outward and Back and Forth across the Paci.c; PART III: From the Bottom Up; Chapter 5: From East to West and West to East; Chapter 6: Left-wing Chinese Immigrant Activists; Chapter 7: Chinese Workers in America
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Chapter 8: Formation of the Oriental Branch of the ILDConclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813540405
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists : Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919-1933
Language:
English
