Wretched Rebels

Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution

By: Lucien Bianco, Philip Liddell (Translator)

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Hardcover | 1 February 2010 | Edition Number 1

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This book, a condensed translation of the prize- winning Jacqueries et revolution dans la Chine du XXe siecle, focuses on "spontaneous" rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. Yet it raises issues inspired by the perennial concerns of revolutionary leaders, such as peasant "class consciousness" and China's modernization.

The author shows that the predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against agents of the state. Foremost among them, resistance to taxation had little to do with class struggle. By contrast, protest by poor agricultural laborers and heavily indebted households was extremely rare. Other forms of social protest were reactions less to social exploitation than to oppression by local powerholders. Peasant resistance to the late Qing "new policy" reforms did indeed impede China's modernization. Decades later, peasant efforts to evade conscription, while motivated by abuses and inequities, weakened the anti-Japanese resistance.

The concluding chapter stresses persistent features of rural protest. It suggests that twentieth-century Chinese peasants were less different from seventeenth- or eighteenth-century French peasants than might be imagined and points to continuities between pre- and post-1949 rural protest.

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Boxes, Maps, and Tables	p. vii
Conventions	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Typology I: Movements Opposed to the Administration	p. 1
Resistance to Tax Collection	p. 1
Special Levies and Mixed Incidents	p. 14
Non-Tax Movements Directed Against the Administration	p. 23
Movements Directed Against the Army and Military Service	p. 30
Typology II: Movements Within Society	p. 36
Social Movements	p. 36
Horizontal Conflicts	p. 43
Sects and Secret Societies	p. 44
Repertoire of Action	p. 52
Nonviolent Action	p. 52
Handing over Farm Tools	p. 56
Violent Actions	p. 57
Peasant "Excesses"	p. 63
Exploitation or Oppression?	p. 69
Social Questions Without Social Movements	p. 69
From Exploitation to Oppression	p. 78
Taxation	p. 90
Against the Increase in the Tax Burden	p. 91
Abuses, Frauds, Smuggling, and Repression	p. 99
Updating the Cadastre	p. 110
The Social Component of Antifiscal Resistance	p. 117
Reforms	p. 130
Resistance to the New Policies	p. 130
Under the Republic	p. 143
Conscription	p. 159
Military Service	p. 160
Mixed Cases: Conscription and Something Else	p. 171
Not So Much Conscription, Just the Army	p. 174
Major Revolts	p. 176
Permanencies	p. 190
In France Long Ago, but Yesterday in China	p. 190
Today in China	p. 200
Appendix
The Various Categories of Rural Disturbances	p. 211
Reference Matter
Notes	p. 217
Works Cited	p. 241
Index	p. 263
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