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Bianco focuses on spontaneous rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. The author shows that predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against state agents, and suggests that 20th-century Chinese peasants were less different from 17th- or 18th-century French peasants than might be imagined.

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Boxes, Maps, and Tables Conventions Preface 1. Typology I: Movements Opposed to the Administration 2. Typology II: Movements Within Society 3. Repertoire of Action 4. Exploitation or Oppression? 5. Taxation 6. Reforms 7. Conscription 8. Permanencies Appendix: The Various Categories of Rural Disturbances Notes Works Cited Index

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 01/02/2010
      ISBN13: 9780674035423, 978-0674035423
      ISBN10: 0674035429
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      Asian history Far-left political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bianco focuses on spontaneous rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. The author shows that predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against state agents, and suggests that 20th-century Chinese peasants were less different from 17th- or 18th-century French peasants than might be imagined.

      Table of Contents
      Boxes, Maps, and Tables Conventions Preface 1. Typology I: Movements Opposed to the Administration 2. Typology II: Movements Within Society 3. Repertoire of Action 4. Exploitation or Oppression? 5. Taxation 6. Reforms 7. Conscription 8. Permanencies Appendix: The Various Categories of Rural Disturbances Notes Works Cited Index

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