Rightful Resistance In Rural China

Author : Kevin J. O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139450980
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rightful Resistance in Rural China written by Kevin J. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials, open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the frontiers of the permissible. This 'rightful resistance' has far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious politics. As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities between collective action in places as varied as China, the former East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest, claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of contention.

Author : Kevin J. O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521861311
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rightful Resistance in Rural China written by Kevin J. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials, open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the frontiers of the permissible. This 'rightful resistance' has far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious politics. As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities between collective action in places as varied as China, the former East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest, claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of contention.

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observers often note the glaring contrast between China’s economic progress and its stalled political reforms. This volume, written by experienced scholars, explores a range of grassroots efforts—initiated by the state and society alike—to restrain corrupt behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities.

Author : Yongshun Cai
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804773734
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Resistance in China written by Yongshun Cai and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited. In this new work, Yongshun Cai combines original fieldwork with secondary sources to examine how social protest has become a viable method of resistance in China and, more importantly, why some collective actions succeed while others fail. Cai looks at the collective resistance of a range of social groups—peasants to workers to homeowners—and explores the outcomes of social protests in China by adopting an analytical framework that operationalizes the forcefulness of protestor action and the cost-benefit calculations of the government. He shows that a protesting group's ability to create and exploit the divide within the state, mobilize participants, or gain extra support directly affects the outcome of its collective action. Moreover, by exploring the government's response to social protests, the book addresses the resilience of the Chinese political system and its implications for social and political developments in China.

Author : B. He
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230607314
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Democracy in China written by B. He and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines village democracy and the prospects of China's democratization. It explains how three key factors - township, economy and kinship - shape village democracy and account for rural variations. It considers the extension of village to township elections, the idea of a mixed regime and its impact on political development in China.

Author : Michael Curtin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251342
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing to the World's Biggest Audience written by Michael Curtin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, and the escalation of democracy movements. This book examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience.

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387875
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism as Exception written by Aihwa Ong and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist. Ong shows how East and Southeast Asian states are making exceptions to their usual practices of governing in order to position themselves to compete in the global economy. As she demonstrates, a variety of neoliberal strategies of governing are re-engineering political spaces and populations. Ong’s ethnographic case studies illuminate experiments and developments such as China’s creation of special market zones within its socialist economy; pro-capitalist Islam and women’s rights in Malaysia; Singapore’s repositioning as a hub of scientific expertise; and flexible labor and knowledge regimes that span the Pacific. Ong traces how these and other neoliberal exceptions to business as usual are reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality. She argues that an interactive mode of citizenship is emerging, one that organizes people—and distributes rights and benefits to them—according to their marketable skills rather than according to their membership within nation-states. Those whose knowledge and skills are not assigned significant market value—such as migrant women working as domestic maids in many Asian cities—are denied citizenship. Nevertheless, Ong suggests that as the seam between sovereignty and citizenship is pried apart, a new space is emerging for NGOs to advocate for the human rights of those excluded by neoliberal measures of human worthiness.

Author : Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107117194
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Force and Contention in Contemporary China written by Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how memories of Mao era suffering drive popular resistance to state power in authoritarian China.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004428895
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its external projection in Russia and China. The book is an essential guide to understand the deep changes of these countries and their global aspirations.

Author : Diana Fu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420540
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing Without the Masses written by Diana Fu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do weak activists organize under repression? This book theorizes a dynamic of contention called mobilizing without the masses.