Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s

In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day—the quest for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society—were deba...