Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Johnston, Hank; Zhang, Sheldon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Although contemporary China is a repressive state, protests and demonstrations have increased almost tenfold between 2005 and 2015. This is an astounding statistic when one considers that Marxist-Leninist regimes of the past tolerated little or no public dissent. How can protests become so common in an autocratic state? What are the trends of repression and mobilization? This collection helps to answer these compelling questions through in-depth analyses of several Chinese protest movements and state responses. The chapters examine the opportunities and constraints for protest mobilization and explains their importance for understanding contemporary Chinese society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881857660
• Artikelnr.: 74833146

Autorenporträt

Hank Johnston is Professor in the Department of Sociology at San Diego State University. He holds the Hansen Chair of Peace and Nonviolence Studies and coordinates the Peace Corps Prep Program at SDSU. Sheldon X. Zhang is Professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts. He is currently serving as an expert consultant to several organizations such as the International Labor Organization, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Freedom Fund, and Walk Free Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Landscape of Protest and Resistance in China
1. Nonviolent Protest in China: Repertories of Resistance and Repression,
Hank Johnston and Sheldon Zhang
2. Popular Protests in China, 2000-2019, Chih-Jou Jay Chen
3. Repertoires of Resistance in a Three-Gorges-Dam Migrants' Petitioning
Campaign, Wing-Chung Ho
Part II. Political Opportunities and Constraints
4. Resistance and the Exclusion of Civic Activism, Xi Chen
5. Bureaucrat-Assisted Contention in China, Kevin J. O'Brien, Lianjiang Li
and Mingxing Liu
6. Soft Repression and Protest Demobilization, Yue Xie
Part III. Environmental Protest
7. Mobilizing Environmental Protests in China, Setsuko Matsugawa
8. Brokering and Buffering Mechanisms: Participation in Environmental
Protests, Yang Zhang
Part IV. Hong Kong
9. Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement Learned the Lesson of the Umbrella
Movement, Ming-shou Ho
10. Hong Kong's Tiananmen Vigil: Collective Identity and Mechanisms of
Memory, Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen
Part V. Religion, Protest, and the State
11. The Public Transcript and the Rise and Shutdown of China's Protestant
'Urban Churches', Carsten Vala
12. Religion and Participation in Protest Movements, Chengzhi Yi, Geping
Qiu and Tao Liang