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This is the story of the workers of Tianjin (Tientsin) and how, in the first half of the twentieth century, they helped shape Tianjin's identity as the major industrial center of North China.
Review Quotes: "This admirable book ... is an empirical tour de force, the lives of Hershatter's subjects depicted in vivid detail with a style that is both disciplined and insightful.... It is an impressive piece of scholarship, of interest not merely to students of the period covered but to those students of Communist China who wish to undersand the antecedents of China's curren urban society and trace the roots of powerful continuities."--The China Quarterly,