Bandits in Republican ChinaStanford University Press, 1988 - 375 Seiten A study of banditry in Republican China, describing the cycles whereby banditry spread from the impoverished margins (geographically and socially) of late Qing society into entire provinces by the 1920s. |
Inhalt
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The Creation and Organization of | 91 |
Bandit Lives and Perspectives | 123 |
Bandits Power | 150 |
China Becomes a Bandits World | 193 |
Bandits and the Revolutionary | 226 |
Conclusion | 271 |
Character List | 287 |
Bandits Who Became Militarists | 299 |
Bibliography 341 Index | 365 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite xi - The point about social bandits is that they are peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions, avengers, fighters for justice, perhaps even leaders of liberation, and in any case as men to be admired, helped and supported.
Seite 226 - The brigand is always the hero, the defender, the avenger of the people, the irreconcilable enemy of the entire State regime, both in its civil and its social aspects, the life and death fighter against our statist-aristocratic, official-clerical civilization. An understanding of brigandage is essential for an understanding of the history of the Russian people . . . The brigand, in Russia, is the true and only revolutionary — the revolutionary without phrase-making and without bookish rhetoric.
Seite xii - social banditry is universally found, wherever societies are based on agriculture (including pastoral economies), and consist largely of peasants and landless labourers ruled, oppressed and exploited by someone else.
Seite xii - ... individuals they are not so much political or social rebels, let alone revolutionaries, as peasants who refuse to submit, and in doing so stand out from their fellows, or even more simply men who find themselves excluded from the usual career of their kind and therefore forced into outlawry and "crime.
Seite 118 - No person shall debauch at his pleasure captive women taken in the villages and open places, and brought on board a ship; he must first request the ship's purser for permission, and then go aside in the ship's hold.
Seite 182 - Kirin (it being possible to cross on the ice in winter) the common people consider that the bandits of their own side are a nuisance, but part of the natural social order and usually amenable to diplomacy and reasonable arrangement; while the bandits from the other side of the river they loathe and dread.
Seite 138 - ... shoot him. But how could a coolie pay that sum? As the excitement subsided, a bandit pointed to the wretched man and asked us how we'd like to be in his place. They kept repeating he would be shot, because he wouldn't pay. He looked haggard and in pain; his hands were tightly bound behind his back. Every now and again a bandit gave him a cutting smack across his face, and stamped his foot on the deck and, cursing, spat on him. They whipped themselves up with words and grew mad. There's no telling...
Seite 127 - ... lived a hard, probably short life: the only consolation they had was opium, which they would do anything to get. The bandits constantly discussed the price and supply of opium much, as Howard recorded, as Western soldiers talked about whisky or beer. He reported that: Opium smoking seemed to fill their every need. It often took the place of food, sleep and recreation with them. In fact every necessity and all other luxuries were as nothing compared to the indulgence in this one vice. When they...
Seite 251 - The masses completely failed to understand what the Red Army was. In many places the army was even attacked, like a bandit gang. The army had no support from the masses There were great difficulties in finding encampments, carrying on military operations, and securing information.