Collective Resistance in China - Why Popular Protests Succeed Or Fail

Informationen zum Autor Yongshun Cai is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched (2006). Klappentext This book addresses the factors that determine the direct and indirect outcomes of collective resistance in contemporary China as well as the government's strategies to maintain social stability amid the numerous social conflicts. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the factors that determine the direct and indirect outcomes of collective resistance in contemporary China as well as the government's strategies to maintain social stability amid the numerous social conflicts.

Product details

• Authors: Yongshun Cai
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2010
• EAN: 9780804763400
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6340-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Studies of the Walter H. Shore; Studies of the Walter H. Shore; Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education