Wong, Sin Kiong
China's Anti-American Boycott Movement in 1905

A Study in Urban Protest.

The author provides a thorough examination of the background to the anti-American protests and the actions taken in various cities and towns, and compares them with similar protests that took place either earlier or later. He focuses on some of the areas that have been overlooked by existing works: a comparative study of the urban history of two boycott centers, Shanghai and Guangzhou; the involvement of the Chinese overseas; the role of the boycott in the 1911 Revolution; the propaganda techniques and mobilization strategies of this social movement; and the impact of the event on Chinese foreign relations. This book also draws attention to the legacy of the boycott: the nonviolent boycott as a means of resisting foreign aggression became both the dominant form of anti-foreign protests and an endemic feature of political life during the first decades of the Chinese Republic. The 1905 boycott, the author argues, signified the rise of the popular protests of twentieth-century China. XVI,216 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Modern Chinese History; vol. 2/Peter Lang Verlag 2002) Mängelexemplar