Shanghai School Workers

In modern Chinese history,school workers are a marginal group that has been ignored.However,in fact,they were not absent from several major historical sites and events in China.This article attempts to use Shanghai school workers as an example to illustrate the participation of modern Chinese school workers in social movements and revolutions.The school workers was born and expanded with the development of modern education in China.Their social identity,economic status,knowledge contacts,and interpersonal networks provide them with motivation and mechanisms to participate in social movements.Their quantity,symbolic significance,and key position also make them special in social movements,especially for student movements and campus politics.In the late Qing Dynasty and the Revolution of 1911,Shanghai school workers had been associated with radical politics.During the May 4th Movement,Fudan school workers also had in-depth participation and support;the 1920 s witnessed the emergence of collective action of school workers based on various motives and the establishment of school workers organizations that were influenced by the left-wing trend of thought.In the late 1940 s,with the general deterioration of the economic situation,the extreme political atmosphere of the campus,and the implementation of the CCP’s student work strategy,school workers in Shanghai were more deeply involved in social protests and revolutionary activities.In the process,they have made great progress in their identity,and have grown into new political subjects in the form of "shi-sheng-yuan-gong".