Contents:
Introduction
Teresa Wright
Part I Overviews
1. Unrest and regime survival
Andrew Wedeman
2. Social unrest in China: a bird’s eye view
Christian Göbel
Part II Protest, dissent, and the law
3. Governing political expression: legitimacy and legal culture
Pitman B. 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 A. Grano and Yuheng Zhang
Part VII Religion
19. Religious charity, repurposing, and “claim-staking” resistance:
the case of Gospel Rehab
Susan K. 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
Edited by Teresa Wright, Chair & Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, US
'This collection is the most comprehensive study on various forms
of popular contention by different groups in contemporary China. By
analysing group-specific action, varied government response and the
effect of contention, this book coherently and convincingly
explains the political rationale for the coexistence of popular
contention and regime stability in an authoritarian state that has
been undergoing significant political and socio-economic changes.
This collection makes important contributions to the understanding
of contentious politics, political participation, and state-society
relations in contemporary China.'
--Yongshun Cai , Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology'Made up of chapters by an appealing mix of well
established and more junior scholars, this volume brings together
in one place illuminating work on the widely varied forms that
protest and resistance have been taking across the People's
Republic of China and continue to take even in a time of ratcheted
up controls. As different as the sources of discontent and styles
of agitation are in disparate parts of the country and among
disparate groups, something is lost when varied struggles are
considered only in isolation. Wright's carefully put together and
very effectively introduced Handbook show how much we can learn
from placing side-by-side actions as varied as petition drives and
marches occurring in settings as dissimilar as Hong Kong and
Hunan.'
--Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine, US'No book
on popular contention in China covers this much territory. All the
important social groups are here as well as every conceivable type
of resistance. This Handbook will provide a ''one-stop shopping''
for students of Chinese protest and repression for years to
come.'
--Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley, US
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