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Author Fowler, Josephine.

Title Japanese and Chinese immigrant activists : organizing in American and international Communist movements, 1919-1933 / Josephine Fowler
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : illustrations, map
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
Summary 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 from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. In Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists, Josephine Fowler brings us the first in-depth account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific. Drawing on multilingual correspondence between left-wing and party members and other primary sources, such as records from branches of the Japanese Workers Association and the Chinese Nationalist Party, Fowler shows how pressures from the Comintern for various sub-groups of the party to unite as an "American" working class were met with resistance. The book also challenges longstanding stereotypes about the relationships among the Communist Party in the United States, the Comintern, and the Soviet Party
Analysis Chinese
Communism
History
Immigrants
International
Japanese
Organizing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-262) and index
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Subject Communist Party of the United States of America -- History
SUBJECT Communist Party of the United States of America fast
Komintern. swd
Subject Japanese Americans -- Politics and government
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government
Immigrants -- Political activity -- United States
HISTORY -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
HISTORY -- General.
Chinese Americans -- Politics and government
Immigrants -- Political activity
Japanese Americans -- Politics and government
Japanischer Einwanderer
Chinesischer Einwanderer
Politisches Handeln
Kommunistische Partei -- Internationale (3.) -- USA.
Internationale -- (3.) -- Kommunistische Partei -- USA.
Internationale -- (3.) -- Ostasien.
Internationale -- (3.) -- Einwanderung -- USA.
Einwanderung -- Internationale (3.) -- USA.
United States
Ostasien
USA
Chinesen -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Japaner -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9786611092603
6611092609
0813540402
9780813540405
Other Titles Japanese & Chinese immigrant activists