Resistance in Colonial and Communist China, 1950-1963
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-67033-7 (ISBN)
The history of colonial East Asia is a human anatomy describing beneficial organs of foreign rule. Proclaiming itself a schematic diagram open to inspection, the anatomy of the late British Empire nevertheless obscured much more than it revealed. This analogy in Price’s provocative Cold War history is not presented only as an insight on imperialism but deciphers competing nationalist ideologies, too. The Kuomintang contended vigorously against communist rule in southern China for a decade after the end of the civil war in 1949 and Chinese communists disparaged British colonialism in Hong Kong in a war of words peaking in 1956–1957. These clashes of will did not produce new rulers in either place. They informed a period of Sino-British strategic partnership based on recognition that a capitalist enclave in southern China had its uses.
By focusing on the Hong Kong region, Resistance in Colonial and Communist China compares anatomies of the British colonial government, the Chinese communists and stateless members of the remnant Kuomintang (1950–1963). Price asserts that after 1949, the colonial government of Hong Kong politically favoured the Kuomintang organised crime societies over their communist nationalist adversaries despite historiographical explanation that it favoured neither.
This book challenges traditional concepts of the British colonial government and its attitude towards communist China. It engages in current debates surrounding Britain’s past by presenting a particularly devious episode of late colonial history.
R.B.E. Price is a Lecturer-at-Law at Southern Cross University, Australia and has held visiting professorships across China. His other publications include Reading Colonies: Property and Control of the British Far East (2016, City University Press of Hong Kong), the biography of a Hong Kong land officer, Going Native: The Passions of Philip Jacks (2016, Australian Scholarly Publishing) and Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology (forthcoming). His current project is a theoretical work, ‘On Occupation’.
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Communist Anatomy (1950 to 1955)
Introduction
Colonial Recognitions
The Anti-Rightist Purge in Mainland China
Chapter 2 The Colonial Anatomy: The 1956 Riot
Introduction
Who Started the Riot of 1956?
A Hapless Civilian and his Widow
Anatomical questions
Chapter 3 1963
Introduction
The Crackdown Begins
British Admissions
The Hyatt Americans
History of KMT Enemy Status
Chapter 4 Anatomies Examined
Introduction
The Colonial Anatomy
The Communist Anatomy
The KMT Anatomy
Chapter 5 Orthodoxy
Introduction
Orthodoxy and Technical Knowledge
Human Rights and the New Imperialism
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.10.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Focus on the History of Conflict |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 263 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-367-67033-X / 036767033X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-67033-7 / 9780367670337 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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