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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778451703321

Autore

O'Brien Kevin J

Titolo

Popular protest in China [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kevin J. O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-674-26630-7

0-674-04158-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Harvard contemporary China series ; ; 15

Classificazione

MH 50091

Altri autori (Persone)

O'BrienKevin J. <1957->

Disciplina

303.48/40951

Soggetti

Social movements - China

Political participation - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-274).

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.