Marxist intellectuals and the Chinese labor movement

About this book

Deng Zhongxia, the organizer and leader of the Guangzhou-Hong Kong General Strike of 1925-26, was one of China's foremost labor activists. Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement is the first English-language examination of Deng's career and thought. It extends into a wider assessment of the relationship between the Chinese labor movement and the Chinese Communist revolution, considering the conflicting interests of workers and Marxist intellectuals and the differences between local and national concerns. Using newly available materials, this study makes a major contribution to the current historiography of the Chinese Communist movement by using the life of Deng Zhongxia, who has been ignored by historians in the Western academic world, to analyze the Communist leadership from a new perspective. It also provides a comprehensive account of the most important labor movement in modern China and a critical assessment of its contribution to the Chinese revolution. Students and specialists in modern Chinese history and politics and those interested in labor movements and in communism in general will find this study enlightening.