TY - BOOK AU - O'Brien,Kevin J AU - OBRIEN,Kevin J TI - Popular Protest in China T2 - Harvard Contemporary China Series SN - 9780674030619 AV - HN737.P65 2008eb U1 - 303.60951 PY - 2009///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Political participation KW - China KW - Social movements KW - Soziale Bewegung KW - gnd KW - Politische Beteiligung KW - HISTORY / Asia / China KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? /; Tarrow, Sidney --; Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China /; O'Brien, Kevin J. / Stern, Rachel E. --; 1. Student Movements in China and Taiwan /; Wright, Teresa --; 2. Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion /; Chen, Xi --; 3. Mass Frames and Worker Protest /; Hurst, William --; 4. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance /; Chen, Feng --; 5. Recruitment to Protestant House Churches /; Vala, Carsten T. / O'Brien, Kevin J. --; 6. Contention in Cyberspace /; Yang, Guobin --; 7. Environmental Campaigns /; Sun, Yanfei / Zhao, Dingxin --; 8. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era /; Cai, Yongshun --; 9. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China /; Thornton, Patricia M. --; 10. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest /; Perry, Elizabeth J. --; Notes --; Contributors; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041585 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674041585.jpg ER -