Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

by Ho-fung Hung

Book Overview

The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.

Hung samples from mid-Qing petitions and humble plaints to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231152035
• ISBN13: 9780231152037
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher