Handbook of protest and resistance in China / edited by Teresa Wright (Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Teresa, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Handbooks of research on contemporary China

Handbooks of research on contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--China.

Protest movements.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

Chinese citizens are far from docile, and regularly and vociferously rise up in collective protest. In some cases they have successfully applied pressure, forcing political and economic elites to satisfy their demands. In others, they have been brutally suppressed. More often than not, however, the results have been mixed. This Handbook explores individual and collective acts of protest and resistance in China since 1989, examining their key unifying underlying themes and their effect on relations between the government and society. Featuring twenty-nine chapters of original research from top scholars, this Handbook spans the broad range of protest and resistance in contemporary China. Its coverage of popular contention related to labour, land, the environment, nationalism, home ownership, information and communication technologies, the law, religion, Hong Kong and ethnic minority groups illuminates the complexity and diversity of citizen actions. The Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China suggests that while these protests and acts of resistance might threaten the ruling Chinese Communist Party, in order to strengthen and legitimise the Party's rule governing authorities' best course of action may be to allow space for citizens to air their grievances, and to prioritise the resolution of complaints. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students of Chinese and comparative politics, as well as for policy makers and interested readers seeking up to date data on protest and resistance in China, and to better understand the problems and perspectives of Chinese citizens.

Contents:

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 Pavlićević, 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 / Björn 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781786433787 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.