Social protest and contentious authoritarianism in China /

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 politic...

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Main Author:	Chen, Xi, 1972 September 6- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Social conflict > China. Protest movements > China. China > Politics and government > 1976-2002. China > Politics and government > 2002-
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