Japanese And Chinese Immigrant Activists : Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933 /

Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed fro...

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Main Author: Fowler, Josephine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins and beginnings
  • Historical background
  • Study groups, the Oriental Branch, and "hands-off China" demonstrations
  • From the top down
  • "The red capital of the great bolshevik republic"
  • Advancing bolshevism from Moscow outward and back and forth across the Pacific
  • From the bottom up
  • From East to West and West to East
  • Left-wing Chinese immigrant activists
  • Chinese workers in America
  • Formation of the Oriental Branch of the ILD.