Force and Contention in Contemporary China : Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
ISBN-10
110753982X
ISBN-13
9781107539822
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 4th, 2016
Print length
488 Pages
Weight
728 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 23.00 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Constitution: government & the state
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The book is about how memories of Mao era suffering, particularly memories of suffering and loss in the Great Leap Forward Famine, have seeped into the present day post-Mao reform period to shape the way in which rural famine survivors see and resist state power and injustice today.
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.
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