Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai - Paperback

by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Author)

This is a history of student protests in Shanghai from the turn of the century to 1949, showing how these students experienced and help shape the course of the Chinese Revolution.

Back Jacket

Wasserstrom has made a major contribution by shaping the history of student protest into a single, twentieth-century story and pattern of complexity. In doing so, he offers a model for rethinking the late imperial, republican, and communist periods as a historical unit conditioned by indigenous and global forces, and explained by sinological and comparative methods.--Journal of Asian Studies
"It succeeds very well at what it sets out to do: to bring Shanghai and performance theory to bear upon our understanding of student activism in twentieth-century China. Enriched by a comprehensive bibliographical essay and suggestive comparisons with Russian, American, and European student movements, this study sets a new standard for research in social history."--The China Quarterly

Author Biography

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.