Popular protest in China
By: edited by Kevin J. O'Brien.
Contributors: O'Brien, Kevin J., 1957-
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780674030602; 9780674030619
Subjects: Social movements -- China; Political participation -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the new contentious politics in China : poor and blank or rich and complex? / Sidney Tarrow; title: Introduction : studying contention in contemporary China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern; title: Student movements in China and Taiwan / Teresa Wright; title: Collective petitioning and institutional conversion / Xi Chen; title: Mass frames and worker protest / William Hurst; title: Worker leaders and framing factory-based resistance / Feng Chen; title: Recruitment to Protestant house churches / Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien; title: Contention in cyberspace / Guobin Yang; title: State-society relations and environmental campaigns / Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao; title: Disruptive collective action in the reform era / Yongshun Cai; title: Manufacturing dissent in transnational China / Patricia M. Thornton; title: Permanent rebellion? continuities and discontinuities in Chinese protest / Elizabeth J. Perry.