Popular Protest in China
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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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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674041585
Topic
History
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex?
  4. Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China
  5. 1. Student Movements in China and Taiwan
  6. 2. Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion
  7. 3. Mass Frames and Worker Protest
  8. 4. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance
  9. 5. Recruitment to Protestant House Churches
  10. 6. Contention in Cyberspace
  11. 7. Environmental Campaigns
  12. 8. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era
  13. 9. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China
  14. 10. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest
  15. Notes
  16. Contributors