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Contents: Introduction / Teresa Wright -- Part I: Overviews -- 1. Unrest and regime survival / Andrew Wedeman -- 2. Social unrest in China: s bird's eye view / Christian Goebel -- Part II: Protest, dissent, and the law -- 3. Governing political expression: legitimacy and legal culture / Pitman Potter -- 4. Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China's human rights lawyers / Eva Pils -- 5. Mass disputes and China's legal system / Hualing Fu -- 6. Dissent below the radar: contention in the daily politics of grassroots organizations / Sophia Woodman -- Part III: Urban labor -- 7. Labor legislation, workers, and the Chinese state / Jenny Chan and Mark Selden -- 8. Worker protests and state response in present-day China: trends, characteristics, and new developments, 2011-2016 / Lu Zhang -- 9. China's contentious cab drivers / Manfred Elfstrom -- 10. Thinking like a state: doing labor activism in south China / Darcy Pan -- Part IV: Rural residents -- 11. Collective petitions and local state responses in rural China / Lei Guang and Yang Su -- 12. Land protests in rural China / Christopher Heurlin -- Part V: Urban homeowners -- 13. Homeowners' rights protection actions in China: why some succeed and others fail / Zhiming Sheng -- 14. Homeowners' activism in urban China: old goals, new strategies / Dragan PavlicÌevicÌ, Long Sun, and Zhengxu Wang -- Part VI: Environmental protest -- 15. Environmental public interest campaigns: a new phenomenon in China's contentious politics / H. Christoph Steinhardt -- 16. Networked contention against waste incinerators in China: brokers, linkages and dynamics of diffusion / BjoÌrn Alpermann and Maria Bondes -- 17. Possibilities for environmental governance in China? Anti-incinerator activists turned participants in municipal waste management in Guangzhou / Natalie W.M. Wong -- 18. Anti-nuclear protest in China / Simona Grano and Yuheng Zhang -- Part VII: Religion -- 19. Religious charity, repurposing, and "claim-staking" resistance: the case of gospel rehab / Susan McCarthy -- 20. Informality as resistance among Catholics and Protestants in China / Marie-Eve Reny -- 21. Protestant resistance and activism in China's official churches / Carsten Vala -- Part VIII : Information and communications technologies -- 22. From mobilization to legitimation: digital media and the evolving repertoire of contention in contemporary China / Jun Liu -- 23. Patriotism without state blessing: Chinese cyber nationalists in a predicament / Rongbin Han -- 24. Microblog dissent and censorship during the 2012 Bo Xilai scandal / Christopher Cairns -- Part IX: Hong Kong -- 25. Hong Kong's struggle to define its political future / Suzanne Pepper -- 26. Dissenting media: Post-1997 Hong Kong / Joyce Y.M. Nip -- Part X: Ethnic minorities -- 27. The environmental protest movement in inner Mongolia / Uchralt Otede -- 28. Ethnic unrest and China's multiple problematic others / Tom Cliff -- 29. More creative, more international : shifts in Uyghur-related violence / Justin V. Hastings -- Index.
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