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Popular Protest in China (Paperback) Loot Price: R831
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Popular Protest in China (Paperback): Kevin J. O'Brien

Popular Protest in China (Paperback)

Kevin J. O'Brien; Contributions by Yongshun Cai, XI Chen, Feng Chen, William Hurst, Elizabeth J. Perry, Rachel Stern, Yanfei Sun, Sidney Tarrow, Patricia M. Thornton

Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series

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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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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series
Release date: November 2008
First published: November 2008
Editors: Kevin J. O'Brien
Contributors: Yongshun Cai • XI Chen • Feng Chen • William Hurst • Elizabeth J. Perry • Rachel Stern • Yanfei Sun • Sidney Tarrow • Patricia M. Thornton
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03061-9
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Demonstrations & protest movements
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LSN: 0-674-03061-3
Barcode: 9780674030619

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