Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s 0520063112, 9780520063112

Based on the author's dissertation. Includes bibliographical references.

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Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s
 0520063112, 9780520063112

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization and Currency
1 A Twentieth-Century
2 The Rickshaw: Machine for a Mixed-up Age
3 Rickshaw Men: Careers of the Laboring Poor
4 Policemen as Mediators and Street-Level Bureaucrats
5 Jeweler, Banker, and Restaurateur: Power Struggles in the Beijing Chamber of Commerce
6 Profits and People's Livelihood: The Politics of Streetcar Development
7 Bosses, Guilds, and Work Gangs: Labor Politics and the Sprouts of Unionism
8 Citizens in a New Public Sphere: Widening Circles of Political Participation
9 City People Under Siege: The Impact of Warlordism
10 Union and Faction: Organized Labor in the Wake of the Northern Expedition
11 Machine-Breakers: The Streetcar Riot of October22, 1929
12 Order and Movement in City Politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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