Popular Protest in China

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese politics and society, argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.Drawing on fieldwork in China, the authors consider topics as varied as student movements, protests by angry workers and taxi drivers, recruitment to Protestant house churches, cyberprotests, and anti-dam campaigns. Their work relies on familiar concepts—such as political opportunity, framing, and mobilizing structures—while interrogating the usefulness of these concepts in a country with a vastly different history of class and state formation than the capitalist West. The volume also speaks to “silences” in the study of contentious politics (for example, protest leadership, the role of grievances, and unconventional forms of organization), and shows that well-known concepts must at times be modified to square with the reality of an authoritarian, non-western state.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-11-21
Mått:156 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Harvard Contemporary China Series
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674030619

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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.

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This is a much needed book that will rightfully attract a great deal of attention. The Introduction is a masterful guide to the range of analytical issues concerning contentious politics, and the quality of the research, analysis, and writing throughout is impressive.

Innehållsförteckning

* 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 * Student Movements in China and Taiwan Teresa Wright * Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion Xi Chen * Mass Frames and Worker Protest William Hurst * Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance Feng Chen * Recruitment to Protestant House Churches Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien * Contention in Cyberspace Guobin Yang * State-Society Relations and Environmental Campaigns Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao * Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era Yongshun Cai * Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China Patricia M. Thornton * Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest Elizabeth J. Perry * Notes * Contributors * Index