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Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China

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Chinese citizens are far from docile, and regularly and vociferously rise up in collective protest. In some cases they have successfully applied pressure, forcing political and economic elites to satisfy their demands. In others, they have been brutally suppressed. More often than not, however, the results have been mixed. This Handbook explores individual and collective acts of protest and resistance in China since 1989, examining their key unifying underlying themes and their effect on relations between the government and society. Featuring twenty-nine chapters of original research from top scholars, this Handbook spans the broad range of protest and resistance in contemporary China. Its coverage of popular contention related to labour, land, the environment, nationalism, home ownership, information and communication technologies, the law, religion, Hong Kong and ethnic minority groups illuminates the complexity and diversity of citizen actions. The Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China suggests that while these protests and acts of resistance might threaten the ruling Chinese Communist Party, in order to strengthen and legitimise the Party's rule governing authorities best course of action may be to allow space for citizens to air their grievances, and to prioritise the resolution of complaints. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students of Chinese and comparative politics, as well as for policy makers and interested readers seeking up to date data on protest and resistance in China, and to better understand the problems and perspectives of Chinese citizens.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-28
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHandbooks of Research on Contemporary China series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781786433770

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Contents:IntroductionTeresa WrightPart I Overviews1. Unrest and regime survivalAndrew Wedeman2. Social unrest in China: a bird’s eye viewChristian GöbelPart II Protest, dissent, and the law 3. Governing political expression: legitimacy and legal culturePitman B. Potter4. Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China’s human rights lawyersEva Pils5. Mass disputes and China’s legal systemHualing Fu6. Dissent below the radar: contention in the daily politics of grassroots organizationsSophia WoodmanPart III Urban labor 7. Labor legislation, workers, and the Chinese stateJenny Chan and Mark Selden8. Worker protests and state response in present-day China: trends, characteristics, and new developments, 2011-2016Lu Zhang9. China’s contentious cab driversManfred Elfstrom10. Thinking like a state: doing labor activism in South ChinaDarcy PanPart IV Rural residents11. Collective petitions and local state responses in rural ChinaLei Guang and Yang Su12. Land protests in rural ChinaChristopher HeurlinPart V Urban homeowners13. Homeowners’ rights protection actions in China: why some succeed and others failZhiming Sheng14. Homeowners' activism in urban China: old goals, new strategiesDragan Pavlićević, Long Sun, and Zhengxu WangPart VI Environmental protest15. Environmental public interest campaigns: a new phenomenon in China’s contentious politics H. Christoph Steinhardt16. Networked contention against waste incinerators in China: brokers, linkages and dynamics of diffusionBjörn Alpermann and Maria Bondes17. Possibilities for environmental governance in China? Anti-incinerator activists turned participants in municipal waste management in GuangzhouNatalie W.M. Wong18. Anti-nuclear protest in ChinaSimona A. Grano and Yuheng ZhangPart VII Religion19. Religious charity, repurposing, and “claim-staking” resistance: the case of Gospel RehabSusan K. McCarthy20. Informality as Resistance among Catholics and Protestants in ChinaMarie-Eve Reny21. Protestant resistance and activism in China’s official churchesCarsten ValaPart VIII Information and communications technologies22. From mobilization to legitimation: Digital media and the evolving repertoire of contention in contemporary ChinaJun Liu23. Patriotism without state blessing: Chinese cyber nationalists in a predicamentRongbin Han24. Microblog dissent and censorship during the 2012 Bo Xilai scandalChristopher CairnsPart IX Hong Kong25. Hong Kong’s struggle to define its political futureSuzanne Pepper26. Dissenting media: post-1997 Hong KongJoyce Y.M. NipPart X Ethnic minorities27. The environmental protest movement in Inner MongoliaUchralt Otede28. Ethnic unrest and China’s multiple problematic othersTom Cliff29. More creative, more international: shifts in Uyghur-related violenceJustin V. HastingsIndex

'This collection is the most comprehensive study on various forms of popular contention by different groups in contemporary China. By analysing group-specific action, varied government response and the effect of contention, this book coherently and convincingly explains the political rationale for the coexistence of popular contention and regime stability in an authoritarian state that has been undergoing significant political and socio-economic changes. This collection makes important contributions to the understanding of contentious politics, political participation, and state-society relations in contemporary China.'--Yongshun Cai , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology'Made up of chapters by an appealing mix of well established and more junior scholars, this volume brings together in one place illuminating work on the widely varied forms that protest and resistance have been taking across the People's Republic of China and continue to take even in a time of ratcheted up controls. As different as the sources of discontent and styles of agitation are in disparate parts of the country and among disparate groups, something is lost when varied struggles are considered only in isolation. Wright's carefully put together and very effectively introduced Handbook show how much we can learn from placing side-by-side actions as varied as petition drives and marches occurring in settings as dissimilar as Hong Kong and Hunan.'--Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine, US'No book on popular contention in China covers this much territory. All the important social groups are here as well as every conceivable type of resistance. This Handbook will provide a ''one-stop shopping'' for students of Chinese protest and repression for years to come.'--Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley, US