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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