Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China

by Xi Chen

Book Overview

Xi Chen explores the question of why there has been a dramatic rise in and routinization of social protests in China since the early 1990s. Drawing on case studies, in-depth interviews and a unique data set of about 1,000 government records of collective petitions, this book examines how the political structure in Reform China has encouraged Chinese farmers, workers, pensioners, disabled people and demobilized soldiers to pursue their interests and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107429366
• ISBN13: 9781107429369
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"