Rickshaw Beijing : city people and politics in the 1920s / David Strand.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-356) and index.

A twentieth-century walled city -- The rickshaw: machine for a mixed-up age -- Rickshaw men: careers of the laboring poor -- Policemen as mediators and street-level bureaucrats -- Jeweler, banker, and restaurateur: power struggles in the Beijing Chamber of Conmmerce -- Profits and people's livelyhood: the politics of streetcar development -- Bosses, guilds, and work gangs: labor politics and the sprouts of unionism -- Citizens in a new public sphere: widening circles of political participation -- City people under siege: the impact of warlordism -- Union and faction: organized labor in the wake of the Northern Expedition -- Machine-breakers: the streetcar riot of October 22, 1929 -- Order and movement in city politics.