Social movements in China and Hong Kong : the expansion of protest space / edited by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Gilles Guiheux.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 1958-

Guiheux, Gilles.

Series:

ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 9.

ICAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--China.

Social change.

Social movements.

China.

Social change--China--Hong Kong.

Social movements--China.

Social movements--China--Hong Kong.

China--Hong Kong.

Physical Description:

312 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Over the last two decades, China and Hong Kong have been testing grounds for protest movements in rural and urban settings. As a result of the changing socioeconomic landscape, the building of a legal state and globalisation, Chinese, on the mainland are increasingly defending their rights and local interests. Likewise, in Hong Kong, with the change of sovereignty from British colonial rule to Chinese rule, Hong Kong Chinese have become politically active and willing to protest for their freedom arid interests.

Social Movements in China and Hong Kong: The Expansion of Protest Space provides a comprehensive view, from multi-disciplinary perspectives, of economic issues such as labour rights, labour unions, anti-globalisation, individual entrepreneurship and the law; and those that concern cultural, religious and gender matters that are considered pertinent by the citizens in mainland China and Hong Kong and hence worthy of their protest actions, despite the inherent risks. Such actions have resulted in the expansion of protest space. Book jacket.

Contents:

Framing social movements in contemporary China and Hong Kong

Social protests, village democracy and state building in China: how do rural social protests promote village democracy

Social movements and state-society relationship in Hong Kong

Social movements and the law in post-colonial Hong Kong

Defining Hong Kong as an emerging protest space: the anti-globalisation movement

'Old working class' resistance in capitalist China: a ritualised social management (1995-2006)

Justifying the new economic and social order: the voice of a private entrepreneur

The rise of migrant workers' collective actions: toward a new social contract in China

Grassroots activism and labour electoral politics under Chinese rule, 1997-2008

Hong Kong's trade unions as an evolving social organisation and their prospects for the future

Non-governmental feminist activism in the People's Republic of China: communicating oppositional gender equality knowledge

THe Hong Kong Catholic Church: a framing role in social movement

Religiosity and social movements in China: divisions and multiplications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-307) and index.

ISBN:

9789089641311

9089641319

9789048510559

9048510554

OCLC:

318873546

Publisher Number:

99939317532