Force and contention in contemporary China : memory and resistance in the long shadow of the catastrophic past

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Label

Force and contention in contemporary China : memory and resistance in the long shadow of the catastrophic past

Title remainder

memory and resistance in the long shadow of the catastrophic past

Statement of responsibility

Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr

Title variation

Force & Contention in Contemporary China

Creator

• Thaxton, Ralph, 1944-

Subject

• China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002
• Legitimacy of governments -- China
• Political corruption -- China | Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng)
• Communism -- China | Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng)
• Government, Resistance to -- China | Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng)
• Zhongguo gong chan dang
• China -- Politics and government -- 2002-
• Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng, China) -- Politics and government
• Collective memory -- China | Dafo Cun (Henan Sheng)

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Dewey number

951.05

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge studies in contentious politics