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Hostile forces : how the Chinese communist party resists international pressure on human rights / Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruffydd-Jones, Jamie J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--China--History.
- Human rights.
- Communism--China--History.
- Communism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Hostile Forces shines a light on how China has learned to manage, manipulate, and resist foreign pressure on human rights, and illustrates how support for authoritarian and nationalist policies can actually grow in response to such critiques from powers within the liberal international system.
- Contents:
- Part I: The argument
- Introduction
- A theory of responses to human rights pressure
- Part II: The regime
- Pressure as propaganda: from Mao to Hu
- Hostile human rights: Tibet, Hong Kong, and beyond
- When does pressure become propaganda?
- Part III: The citizens
- Experimental activism
- People on the street
- Pressure in real time
- Part IV: The implications
- Implications for China and beyond.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-764321-3
- 0-19-764323-X
- 0-19-764322-1
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