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Popular Protest in China.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Contemporary China SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041585
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Popular Protest in ChinaDDC classification:
  • 303.48/40951
LOC classification:
  • HN737
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? -- Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China -- 1. Student Movements in China and Taiwan -- 2. Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion -- 3. Mass Frames and Worker Protest -- 4. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance -- 5. Recruitment to Protestant House Churches -- 6. Contention in Cyberspace -- 7. Environmental Campaigns -- 8. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era -- 9. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China -- 10. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest -- Notes -- Contributors.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? -- Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China -- 1. Student Movements in China and Taiwan -- 2. Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion -- 3. Mass Frames and Worker Protest -- 4. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance -- 5. Recruitment to Protestant House Churches -- 6. Contention in Cyberspace -- 7. Environmental Campaigns -- 8. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era -- 9. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China -- 10. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest -- Notes -- Contributors.

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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