ISBN:
9780674041585
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0674041585
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 277 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Harvard contemporary China series 15
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Popular protest in China
DDC:
303.4840951
Keywords:
Social movements China
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Political participation China
;
China
;
Social movements
;
Political participation
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Civil Rights
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Political participation
;
Social movements
;
Protestbewegung
;
China
;
Berkeley 〈Calif., 2006〉
;
China
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Prologue : the new contentious politics in China : poor and blank or rich and complex? / Sidney Tarrow -- Introduction : studying contention in contemporary China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern -- Student movements in China and Taiwan / Teresa Wright -- Collective petitioning and institutional conversion / Xi Chen -- Mass frames and worker protest / William Hurst -- Worker leaders and framing factory-based resistance / Feng Chen -- Recruitment to Protestant house churches / Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien -- Contention in cyberspace / Guobin Yang -- Environmental campaigns / Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao -- Disruptive collective action in the reform era / Yongshun Cai -- Manufacturing dissent in transnational China / Patricia M. Thornton -- Permanent rebellion? continuities and discontinuities in Chinese protest / Elizabeth J. Perry.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-274). - Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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