Force and Contention in Contemporary China(English, Hardcover, Thaxton, Jr Ralph A.)

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Force and Contention in Contemporary China(English, Hardcover, Thaxton, Jr Ralph A.) is written by Thaxton, Jr Ralph A. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107117194 (ISBN 10) and 9781107117198 (ISBN 13).

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.