作者：DavidStrand
出版社：UniversityofCaliforniaPress
副标题：CityPeopleandPoliticsinthe1920s
出版年：1993-4-27
页数：388
定价：USD33.95
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780520082861
内容简介
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In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China’s cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day–the quest for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society–were debated and fought over. People were drawn into this conflicts because they knew that the passage of armies, the marching of protesters, the pontificating of intellectual, and the opening and closing of factories could change their lives. David Strand offers a penetrating view of the old walled capital of Beijing during these years by examining how the residents coped with the changes wrought by itinerant soldiers and politicians and by the accelerating movement of ideas, capital, and technology. By looking at the political experiences of ordinary citizens, including rickshaw pullers, policemen, trade unionists, and Buddhist monks, Strand provides fascinating insights into how deeply these forces were felt. The resulting portrait of early twentieth-century Chinese urban society stresses the growing political sophistication of ordinary people educated by mass movements, group politics, and participation in a shared, urban culture that mixed opera and demonstrations, newspaper reading and teahouse socializing. Surprisingly, in the course of absorbing new ways of living, working, and doing politics, much of the old society was preserved–everything seemed to change and yet little of value was discarded. Through tumultuous times, Beijing rose from a base of local and popular politics to form a bridge linking a traditional world of guilds and gentry elites with the contemporary world of corporatism and cadres.
作者简介
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David Strand is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College.
评论 ······
20年代从京城降为北平、民生凋敝、社会动荡的大背景下的普通民众与日常政治，黄包车夫、警察、商会、行会、国民党部等的基层博弈，故事性不错，但叙述为主，论点不大清晰。可搭配读季剑青的书评和其引用的杜丽红的两篇较新论文。
本不该打这么低的分，但是可读性太差了，其实写的很清楚，文笔不差，但是我看完一章根本记不住任何东西，不知道作者的观点是什么，要重新读一遍才勉强抓住重点，太糟糕了。
人力车好有趣
Urban politics
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