Labor (magazine)

Labor (simplified Chinese: 《劳动》; traditional Chinese: 《勞動》; pinyin: Láodòng) was a Chinese anarchist magazine founded in March 1918, and the first labor magazine in China. Its founders included Wu Zhihui, Liang Bingxin and Liu Shixin (younger brother of Liu Shifu).

History

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On the eve of the May Fourth Movement, anarchism was widespread in China.[1]

In March 1918, Wu Zhihui, Liang Bingxian and others founded the monthly magazine in Shanghai to promote the labor movement.[2] Wu Zhihui set the purpose of the Labor as "to respect labor; to advocate laborism; to maintain proper labor and exclude improper labor ... to promote the unity of laborers in China and the world to solve social problems".[1] In the same month, the magazine published an article praising the October Revolution.[3]

The magazine published only five issues and was then discontinued.[4]

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b Xiong 2019, p. 58.
  2. ^ Xiong 2019, p. 58; Dirlik 1991, p. 15.
  3. ^ Zhu et al. 2000, p. 21.
  4. ^ Gu 1999.

Sources

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  • Dirlik, Arif (1991). Anarchism in the Chinese revolution (PDF). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520072978. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  • Gu, Xin (1999). "从"平民主义"到"劳农专政":五四激进思潮中的民粹主义和中国马克思主义的起源(1919-1922年)" [From "Populism" to "Dictatorship of Labor and Peasants": Populism in the May Fourth Radical Trend and the Origins of Chinese Marxism (1919-1922)]. Modern China Studies (in Simplified Chinese) (2). Retrieved 2022-06-22.
  • Xiong, Qiuliang (2019). "五四知识分子对"劳工神圣"的认知与实践" [The May Fourth Intellectuals' Perception and Practice of the "Sanctity of Labor"] (PDF). 马克思主义研究 [Studies on Marxism] (in Simplified Chinese) (4): 56–67. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  • Zhu, Yuhe; Cai, Lesu; et al., eds. (2000). 毛泽东与20世纪中国 [Mao Zedong and 20th Century China] (in Simplified Chinese). Beijing: Tsinghua University Press. ISBN 978-7-302-03809-2. Retrieved 2022-06-21.