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Book Review
Asia
S. A. Smith. Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 18951927. (Comparative and International Working-Class History.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 366. Cloth $64.95, paper $21.95.
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This is a worthy addition to the seemingly endless outpouring of new monographs on modern Shanghai. Its subject is the development of class consciousness among the city's proletariat in the early twentieth century. Its author, S. A. Smith, brings to the topic a unique perspective. He was originally a labor historian of Russia and the author of Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 191718 (1983). Since then he has retooled as a China scholar and, in addition to this monograph, has published a companion volume on the early history of the Chinese Communist Party entitled A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 19201927 (2000). Principal sources for this study include contemporary Chinese newspapers and labor journals, documentary collections, as well as British diplomatic dispatches and the Shanghai Municipal Police files. |
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