Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State

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Although contemporary China is a repressive state, protests and demonstrations have increased almost tenfold between 2005 and 2015. This is an astounding statistic when one considers that Marxist-Leninist regimes of the past tolerated little or no public dissent. How can protests become so common in an autocratic state? What are the trends of repression and mobilization? This collection helps to answer these compelling questions through in-depth analyses of several Chinese protest movements and state responses. The chapters examine the opportunities and constraints for protest mobilization and explains their importance for understanding contemporary Chinese society.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2022-02-24
Mått: 156 x 218 x 27 mm
Vikt: 531 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 356
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781538165027

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Hank Johnston is professor of sociology at San Diego State University and SDSU Global Research Professor 2021–2022. He is founding editor of Mobilization: An International Quarterly. Sheldon X. Zhang is Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts. He is currently serving as an expert consultant to several organizations such as the International Labor Organization, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Freedom Fund, and Walk Free Foundation.

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This timely volume provides us with a detailed overview of the changing landscape of social contention in China. As the book makes clear, after a surge that started in the 1990s and peaked in 2014, protest has declined under Xi Jinping’s increasingly repressive watch. The individual chapters present both a systematic assessment of the development and characteristics of rural and urban protest in China during this period and a set of fascinating accounts of the multi-faceted contentious politics under China’s techno-authoritarian regime— from the petitioning tactics of forced three-gorges-dam migrants to bureaucrat-assisted contention and the extraordinary tenacity of Hongkong’s anti-extradition movement.

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