Chinese Anarchism

The history of anarchism and libertarian socialism in China has to be at least as little known as that of Cuba. Yet there is indeed a rich history to be uncovered!

An article to read:
Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism: An Interview with Arif Dirlik

Books on Chinese Anarchism:

"Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution" by Arik Dirlik
University of California Press, Berkeley (also in Los Angleles and Oxford, England)
Hardcover, ISBN: 0-520-07297-9
pub. in 1991, priced at about $40 but it was in a used book store for $17.

References to the Chinese anarchist named "Ba Jin":


From D. Ward's Anarchist Archive:

Ba Jin (1972). Family. Anchor Books.
 -- (1928) Gemingde Xianqu (Vanguards of Revolution). 
	Shanghai
 -- (1936) Shengzhi Chanhui (Confessions of a Life). 
 	Shanghai: Shangwu Yinshuquan.
 -- (1938) Yi (Recollections). Shanghai: Wenhua 
 	Shenghuo Chubanshe.
Bernal, M. (1969). "The Triumph of Anarchism over 
	Marxism,1906-1907". In China in Revolution: 
	The First Phase, 1900-1913, ed. Mary C., 
	Wright. New Haven: Yale University Press. 
Chan, Ming K. and Arif Dirlik (1991). Schools into 
	Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the 
	Guomindang, and the Labor University in 
	Shanghai, 1927-1932. Durham, N.C.: 
	Duke University Press.
Dirlik, A. (1993). Anarchism in the Chinese 
	Revolution. Berkeley: University of 
	California Press.
"Internationalist" (1968). "The Origins of the 
	Anarchist Movement in China". Pamphlet. 
	London: Coptic Press.
Lang, O. (1967). "Pa Chin and his Writings" Harvard. 
"Pa Chin's Journey in Sentiment: From Hope to Dispair". 
	Journal of the Chinese Teachers Association. 
	11.2 (May 1976)
Scalapino, R. and Yu, G.T. (1961). The Chinese 
	Anarchist Movement. Berkeley: Center 
	for Chinese Studies.
Shiro, Nohara January 1975-April 1976). "Anarchism 
	in the May Fourth Movement". Libero 
	International. nos. 1-4.
Starr, J.B. (Jan-Mar 1972). "Revolution in Retrospect: 
	The Paris Commune through Chinese Eyes". China 
	Quarterly, no. 49, pp. 106-25.
Welsh, J. (1981). "Shen-wu-lien: China's Anarchist 
	Opposition". Social Anarchism 2, no. 1, 
	pp. 3-15.
Zarrow, P. (1990). Anarchism and Chinese Political 
	Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.

Check out the web page of Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians

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