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Author: Andrew Junker Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108655890 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 231
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Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect.
Author: Andrew Junker Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108655890 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 231
Book Description
Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect.
Author: Andrew Junker Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108482996 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 231
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Presents an empirically and theoretically rich sociological study of two Chinese diaspora protest movements: Falun Gong and the Chinese democracy movement.
Author: Elizabeth Brunner Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793606137 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 218
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This book is an in-depth study on the use of social media in environmental activism in China. The author weaves together post-structuralist theory, media theory, social movement theory, and environmental communication studies to analyze concepts such as wild public networks and force majeure in the context of contemporary social movements.
Author: Ching Kwan Lee Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022634083X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
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Unnatural capital: Chinese state investment and its travails in Africa -- Varieties of accumulation: profit maximization and beyond -- Labor bargains: regimes of exploitation and exclusion -- Managerial ethos: collective asceticism versus individual careerism -- Contesting capital: aspiration and capacity from below -- Eventful global China -- Appendix: an ethnographer's odyssey: the mundane and the sublime of researching China in Zambia
Author: Stephen Noakes Publisher: Alternative Sinology ISBN: 9781526119476 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 194
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This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China.
Author: Elly Leung Publisher: ISBN: 9783030833145 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book engages with Foucault's theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China. In so doing, the author applies Foucault's genealogical (historicalization) method to explore the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) develop Chinese governmentality (or government of mentalities) among everyday workers in its thought management system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China's stable political party is sustained through the CCP's ability to retain, update and incorporate many Confucian discourses into its contemporary form of thought management system using social networks, such as families and schools, to continuously (re-) shape workers' consciousness into one that maintains their docility. This book will bring a new voice to the debate of Chinese working-class politics and labour movements. It will serve as a gateway to comprehensive knowledge about China for students and academics with interests in Chinese employment relations, Chinese politics, labourist activist culture, and social movements. Elly Leung is a research officer at the University of Western Australia. Since completing the doctoral thesis that explored how workers' consciousness and mentalities were (re-) shaped by the State in China, her writings have appeared in various books and journals.
Author: Guobin Yang Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231513143 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 488
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Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many other contemporary protest forms in China and the world, Yang argues, Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces, and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Transnationalism and the tradition of protest in China's incipient civil society provide cultural and social resources to online activism. Even Internet businesses have encouraged contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between commerce and activism. Yang's book weaves these strands together to create a vivid story of immense social change, indicating a new era of informational politics.
Author: Jing Wang Publisher: ISBN: 0674980921 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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Westerners tend to equate political action with revolution and open criticism, leading to concerns that the less outspoken citizens of nonliberal societies are brainwashed, complicit, or paralyzed by fear. Jing Wang shatters this myth, showing how online activists in China are quietly building powerful coalitions for incremental social change.
Author: Phillip Charles Saunders Publisher: ISBN: Category : China Languages : en Pages : 82
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Introduction -- Grand strategy, economic development, and foreign policy priorities -- Drivers of China's increasing global activism -- Tools for Chinese global influence -- Data on Chinese regional priorities -- Is China's increase global activism the product of a global strategy? -- Outlook and implications -- Conclusion.
Author: Peter Ho Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415433746 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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The contributors to China's Embedded Activism focus on the environmental realm - one of the most active areas of civil society in modern China.
Author: Andrew Junker
Author: Andrew Junker
Author: Andrew Junker
Author: Elizabeth Brunner
Author: Ching Kwan Lee
Author: Stephen Noakes
Author: Elly Leung
Author: Guobin Yang
Author: Jing Wang
Author: Phillip Charles Saunders
Author: Peter Ho