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Popular Protest in China
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- 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