Title
Popular culture in the making of anti-imperialist and nationalist sentiments in Sichuan
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
Existing Western scholarship on the rights recovery movement in Sichuan mainly focuses on the role played by elites. This article argues that popular culture, in the form of folk stories, songs, and children’s primers, also contributed to that movement by shaping and expressing popular anti-imperialist attitudes. Its analysis of primers available in late Qing Sichuan and popular stories about the activities of foreigners prevalent in the early 1900s serves to reveal a rich local cultural milieu of time-nurtured anti-imperialist sentiment among common people, which broadly influenced local political action. The protests over the Jiangbei mining concession encompassed both elite and ordinary people, although each group understood the issue differently.
Publication Title
Modern China
Repository Citation
Li, Danke K., "Popular culture in the making of anti-imperialist and nationalist sentiments in Sichuan" (2004). History Faculty Publications. 111.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/history-facultypubs/111
Published Citation
Li, Danke. "Popular culture in the making of anti-imperialist and nationalist sentiments in Sichuan." Modern China 30.4 (Oct 2004): 470-505. doi:10.1177/0097700404267467.
DOI
10.1177/0097700404267467
Peer Reviewed
Comments
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