Like Cattle and HorsesIn Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai shek, Smith uses a host of documentsjournalistic accounts of strikes, memoirs by former activists, police recordsto argue that a