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Force and Contention in Contemporary China

Force and Contention in Contemporary China

Thaxton, Ralph A., Jr.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1107117194
ISBN13: 9781107117198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 8 2016
Pages: 492
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Republic of China central government. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr provides us with a worm's-eye view of an 'unknown China' - a China that cannot easily or fully be understood through made-in-the-academy theories and frameworks of why and how rural people have engaged in contentious politics. This book is a truly unique and disturbing look at how rural people relate to an authoritarian political system in a country that aspires to become a stable world power.

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