Urban Mass Movement: The May Thirtieth Movement in Shanghai
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 197-216
ISSN: 1469-8099
The May Thirtieth Incident which occurred in Shanghai during 1925 has been regarded by the Chinese as one of the most important events in modern Chinese history, and the incident has been called 'Wu-san Ch'an-an' (the May 30th Tragedy) ever since 1925. Yet only a few studies in the Western languages deal with such an important event. Among those few studies, two of them concentrate on the role of labor in the movement, and the other after collecting a lot of source materials decides to add a subtitle, 'an outline', to recognize the vastness and complexity of the subject without making much effort to analyze or discuss the movement.