This analysis of the social and political transformations which took place in Beijing during a period of chaos and revolution examines the processes by which Chinese people of different classes were drawn into political participation and developed a political consciousness.[...]
In this cogent and insightful reading of China's twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life--one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China's social and cultural o[...]