{"product_id":"9781503650688","title":"We Workers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe Workers is the first book-length study examining the Chinese communist press and its relationship to the growing labor movement. New China Daily, a leading Chinese Communist Party newspaper during the Second Sino-Japanese War, preserves a unique record of workers' stories through columns dedicated to readers' letters. Long a neglected resource, the participatory journalism in New China Daily enables conflicting theories about the formation of working-class identity to be tested. Chinese workers wrote of their suffering, of wartime social life, of injustice, and of their aspirations. Their stories were read, shared, and created a community of class that ultimately fueled post-war labor's demands for rights and job security, and that contributed to the formation of post-1949 industrial citizenship.    Drawing from New China Daily articles, CCP documents, memoirs, and other historical sources, We Workers explores how participatory journalism shaped a language of class and citizenship during a crucial period of political transformation in China. As the Chinese working class reconstituted in the People's Republic of China, the worker correspondence pioneered by New China Daily became a nationwide model for newspapers that sustained the practices of propaganda and mass work, offering workers a vital forum for political participation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67729450663988,"sku":"9781503650688","price":68.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781503650688_c374e61a-b831-4675-a07a-3221412f60aa.jpg?v=1792444646","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9781503650688","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}