Resistance in Colonial and Communist China, 1950-1963

This book challenges traditional concepts of the British colonial government and its attitude towards communist China, and debates surrounding Britain's colonial past.

R.B.E. Price is a Lecturer-at-Law at Southern Cross University, Australia and has held visiting professorships across China. His other publications include Reading Colonies: Property and Control of the British Far East (2016, City University Press of Hong Kong), the biography of a Hong Kong land officer, Going Native: The Passions of Philip Jacks (2016, Australian Scholarly Publishing) and Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology (forthcoming). His current project is a theoretical work, 'On Occupation'.

Abbreviations Chapter 1 Communist Anatomy (1950 to 1955) Introduction Colonial Recognitions The Anti-Rightist Purge in Mainland China Chapter 2 The Colonial Anatomy: The 1956 Riot Introduction Who Started the Riot of 1956? A Hapless Civilian and his Widow Anatomical questions Chapter 3 1963 Introduction The Crackdown Begins British Admissions The Hyatt Americans History of KMT Enemy Status Chapter 4 Anatomies Examined Introduction The Colonial Anatomy The Communist Anatomy The KMT Anatomy Chapter 5 Orthodoxy Introduction Orthodoxy and Technical Knowledge Human Rights and the New Imperialism Index