Guilty of indigence : the urban poor in China, 1900-1953

Guilty of indigence : the urban poor in China, 1900-1953

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines th...

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Main Author: Chen, Janet Y., 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Urban poor > China > History > 20th century.
Poverty > China > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Poverty
Social conditions
Urban poor
China > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
China
Beijing.
China.
Communists.
Japanese penology.
Nanjing Decade.
Nationalist Party.
Nationalist government.
People's Republic.
Republican-era China.
Shanghai.
World War II.
agrarian revolutionaries.
beggars.
citizenship.
coffin repositories.
custodial detention.
detention.
government custody.
government institutions.
homelessness.
incarceration.
industrial training.
labor.
nonworking poor.
poor relief.
poorhouses.
poverty policies.
productive citizens.
productivism.
reforming elites.
refugee crisis.
refugees.
relief agencies.
relief agenda.
scientific charity.
security.
shantytowns.
social dislocation.
social parasites.
socialist ideology.
sociology.
straw huts.
twentieth-century China.
urban disorder.
urban poor.
urban poverty.
vagrancy.
war victims.
work relief.
workhouse.
workhouses.
Electronic books.
History

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