Popular Protest in China
Published on 1. July 2009
288 pages
978-0-674-04158-5 (ISBN)
Description
Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04158-5 (9780674041585)
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Kevin J. O'Brien
Popular Protest in China
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11/2008
Harvard University Press
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Persons
Kevin J. O'Brien is Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Patricia M. Thornton is University Lecturer in the Politics of China at Oxford University.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? Sidney Tarrow Introduction Studying Contention in Contemporary China Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern 1. Student Movements in China and Taiwan Teresa Wright 2. Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion Xi Chen 3. Mass Frames and Worker Protest William Hurst 4. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance Feng Chen 5. Recruitment to Protestant House Churches Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien 6. Contention in Cyberspace Guobin Yang 7. State-Society Relations and Environmental Campaigns Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao 8. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era Yongshun Cai 9. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China Patricia M. Thornton 10. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest Elizabeth J. Perry Notes Contributors Index Acknowledgments
