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Japanese and Chinese immigrant activists : organizing in American and international Communist movements, 1919-1933 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fowler, Josephine
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Communist Party of the United States of America > History.
Communist Party of the United States of America.
Komintern.
Japanese Americans > Politics and government.
Chinese Americans > Politics and government.
Immigrants > Political activity > United States.
Japanese Americans.
HISTORY > General.
Immigrants > Political activity.
United States.
Kommunistische Partei > Internationale (3.) > USA.
Internationale > (3.) > Kommunistische Partei > USA.
Internationale > (3.) > Ostasien.
Internationale > (3.) > Einwanderung > USA.
Einwanderung > Internationale (3.) > USA.
Chinesen > USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Japaner > USA > Geschichte 20. Jh.
Japanischer Einwanderer.
Chinesischer Einwanderer.
Politisches Handeln.
USA.
Ostasien.
Geschichte 1919-1933
Geschichte 1927-1932
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.