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1 online resource (x, 277 pages) |
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Harvard contemporary China series ; 15 |
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Harvard contemporary China series ; 15.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-274) |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social movements -- China
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Political participation -- China
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
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Political participation
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Social movements
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Protestbewegung
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China
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China
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Berkeley <Calif., 2006>
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Brien, Kevin J., 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780674041585 |
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0674041585 |
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