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24 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in China

from Africa, Asia, Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Gotelind Müller
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

The study of anarchism and syndicalism in China and their historical role has to confront several problems. Politically, neither in the PRC (People’s Republic of China) nor in Taiwan during its GMD (Guomindang / ‘KMT’ / National Party) period (1945–90s) were these topics welcome, and in consequence sources were hidden away or censored, and, in any case, were not easy to access, while former activists were wary of talking openly about a past they had been discouraged from remembering. It is only since the 1980s that a limited easing has set in on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 577 - 598
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Chan, Ming K., and Dirlik, Arif, Schools into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the Labor University in Shanghai, 1927–1932 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Dirlik, Arif, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dirlik, Arif, ‘Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China’, in Lucassen, J. (ed.), Global Labour History: A State of the Art (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 373–95.Google Scholar
Krebs, Edward S., Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).Google Scholar
Moll-Murata, Christine, ‘China’, in Hofmeester, K. and van der Linden, M. (eds.), Handbook Global History of Work (Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2018), pp. 15–31.Google Scholar
Müller, Gotelind, ‘Anarchism, Marxism, and Nationalism in China: Between Conflict, Cooperation, and Continuities’, in Hirsch, S. and van der Walt, L. (eds.), Radical Encounters in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870–1940: Anarchist, Marxist, and Nationalist Struggles (London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming).Google Scholar
Müller, Gotelind, China, Kropotkin und der Anarchismus. Eine Kulturbewegung im China des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts unter dem Einfluß des Westens und japanischer Vorbilder (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2001).Google Scholar
Guoqi, Xu, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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