Introduction / Justin V. Hastings. More creative, more international : shifts in Uyghur-related violence / Andrew Wedeman -- Social unrest in China: s bird's eye view / Christian Goebel -- Governing political expression: legitimacy and legal culture / Pitman Potter -- Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China's human rights lawyers / Eva Pils -- Mass disputes and China's legal system / Hualing Fu -- Dissent below the radar: contention in the daily politics of grassroots organizations / Sophia Woodman -- Labor legislation, workers, and the Chinese state / Jenny Chan and Mark Selden -- Worker protests and state response in present-day China: trends, characteristics, and new developments, 2011-2016 / Lu Zhang -- China's contentious cab drivers / Manfred Elfstrom -- Thinking like a state: doing labor activism in south China / Darcy Pan -- Collective petitions and local state responses in rural China / Lei Guang and Yang Su -- Land protests in rural China / Christopher Heurlin -- Homeowners' rights protection actions in China: why some succeed and others fail / Zhiming Sheng -- Homeowners' activism in urban China: old goals, new strategies / Dragan Pavlićević, Long Sun, and Zhengxu Wang -- Environmental public interest campaigns: a new phenomenon in China's contentious politics / H. Christoph Steinhardt -- Networked contention against waste incinerators in China: brokers, linkages and dynamics of diffusion / Björn Alpermann and Maria Bondes -- Possibilities for environmental governance in China? Anti-incinerator activists turned participants in municipal waste management in Guangzhou / Natalie W.M. Wong -- Anti-nuclear protest in China / Simona Grano and Yuheng Zhang -- Religious charity, repurposing, and "claim-staking" resistance: the case of gospel rehab / Susan McCarthy -- Informality as resistance among Catholics and Protestants in China / Marie-Eve Reny -- Protestant resistance and activism in China's official churches / Carsten Vala -- From mobilization to legitimation: digital media and the evolving repertoire of contention in contemporary China / Jun Liu -- Patriotism without state blessing: Chinese cyber nationalists in a predicament / Rongbin Han -- Microblog dissent and censorship during the 2012 Bo Xilai scandal / Christopher Cairns -- Hong Kong's struggle to define its political future / Suzanne Pepper -- Dissenting media: Post-1997 Hong Kong / Joyce Y.M. Nip -- Environmental protest movement in inner Mongolia / Uchralt Otede -- Ethnic unrest and China's multiple problematic others / Tom Cliff -- More creative, more international : shifts in Uyghur-related violence / Justin V. Hastings.
Summary:
"Chinese citizens are far from docile, and regularly and vociferously rise up in collective protest. In some cases they have successfully applied pressure, forcing political and economic elites to satisfy their demands. In others, they have been brutally suppressed. More often than not, however, the results have been mixed. This Handbook explores individual and collective acts of protest and resistance in China since 1989, examining their key unifying underlying themes and their effect on relations between the government and society. Featuring twenty-nine chapters of original research from top scholars, this Handbook spans the broad range of protest and resistance in contemporary China. Its coverage of popular contention related to labour, land, the environment, nationalism, home ownership, information and communication technologies, the law, religion, Hong Kong and ethnic minority groups illuminates the complexity and diversity of citizen actions. The Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China suggests that while these protests and acts of resistance might threaten the ruling Chinese Communist Party, in order to strengthen and legitimise the Party's rule governing authorities' best course of action may be to allow space for citizens to air their grievances, and to prioritise the resolution of complaints. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students of Chinese and comparative politics, as well as for policy makers and interested readers seeking up to date data on protest and resistance in China, and to better understand the problems and perspectives of Chinese citizens"--Back cover.
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