Description
Book SynopsisProvides an account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific. This book shows how pressures from the Comintern for various sub-groups of the party to unite as an ""American"" working class were met with resistance.
Trade ReviewThis meticulously researched volume illuminates the workings of the Communist movement among Asians in America and abroad in the twentieth century. Fowler's contributions will provide a critical reference point to all interested in the history of Asian Americans, labor activism, and international politics for years to come. -- Chris Friday, Professor of History * Western Washington University *
...an impressive book based on imaginative research and original thinking. This history of early radicalism will attract deserved attention from the ranks of Asian American Studies and other ethnic studies scholars. * Journal of American Ethnic History *
Josephine Fowler's work may be considered the earliest book-length scholarly text that supplies readers with much-needed information on the radical activities of Chinese and Japanese expatriates in the United States. * American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsOrigins and beginnings
Historical background
Study groups, the Oriental Branch, and "hands-off China" demonstrations
From the top down
"The red capital of the great bolshevik republic"
Advancing bolshevism from Moscow outward and back and forth across the Pacific
From the bottom up
From East to West and West to East
Left-wing Chinese immigrant activists
Chinese workers in America
Formation of the Oriental Branch of the ILD
