Resistance Under Communist China

Author : Ray Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030141486

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Resistance Under Communist China by Ray Wang Pdf

This book examines religious activism—Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism—in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism. The author focuses on mechanisms used by three kinds of actors: protesters, advocates and opportunists, and uses regional, inter-faith, and international comparisons to understand why some foreign advocates can enter China and engage in illegal aid and missions to empower local activists, while the same groups cannot conduct the same activities in another geographically, economically and politically similar location. The stories in this book demonstrate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach of transnational activism; they challenge the conventional spiral theory paradigm of human rights literature and the narrow views about GONGOs in civil society literature. This new knowledge helps to sustain a more optimistic view and offers an alternative way of promoting human rights in China and countries with similar authoritarian environments.

Author : Chʻêng-chih Shih
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Anti-Communist underground
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120070292

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People's Resistance in Mainland China, 1950-1955 by Chʻêng-chih Shih Pdf

Author : Kate Zhou
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412815208

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China's Long March to Freedom by Kate Zhou Pdf

China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Th eir success has been phenomenal, despite the fact that China continues to be governed by a single party. Clear distinctions between the people and the government are emerging, underlining the fact that true liberalization cannot be imposed from above. Although a large percentage of the Chinese people have been part of China's long march to freedom, farmers, entrepreneurs, migrants, Chinese gays, sex pleasure seekers, and black-marketers played a particularly important role in the beginning. Lawyers, scholars, journalists, and rights activists have jumped in more recently to ensure that liberalization continues. Social dissatisfaction with the government is now published in the media, addressed in public forums, and deliberated in courtrooms. Intellectuals devoted to improvement in human rights and continued liberalization are part of the process. This grassroots social revolution has also resulted from the explosion of information available to ordinary people (especially via the Internet) and far-reaching international influences. All have fundamentally altered key elements of the moral and material content of China's party-state regime and society at large. Th is social revolution is moving China towards a more liberal society despite its government. Th e Chinese government reacts, rather than leads, in this transformative process. Th is book is a landmark--a decade in the making.

Author : Tetsuya Kataoka
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520362956

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Resistance and Revolution in China by Tetsuya Kataoka Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : R. B. E. Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429754685

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Resistance in Colonial and Communist China, 1950-1963 by R. B. E. Price Pdf

The history of colonial East Asia is a human anatomy describing beneficial organs of foreign rule. Proclaiming itself a schematic diagram open to inspection, the anatomy of the late British Empire nevertheless obscured much more than it revealed. This analogy in Price’s provocative Cold War history is not presented only as an insight on imperialism but deciphers competing nationalist ideologies, too. The Kuomintang contended vigorously against communist rule in southern China for a decade after the end of the civil war in 1949 and Chinese communists disparaged British colonialism in Hong Kong in a war of words peaking in 1956–1957. These clashes of will did not produce new rulers in either place. They informed a period of Sino-British strategic partnership based on recognition that a capitalist enclave in southern China had its uses. By focusing on the Hong Kong region, Resistance in Colonial and Communist China compares anatomies of the British colonial government, the Chinese communists and stateless members of the remnant Kuomintang (1950–1963). Price asserts that after 1949, the colonial government of Hong Kong politically favoured the Kuomintang organised crime societies over their communist nationalist adversaries despite historiographical explanation that it favoured neither. This book challenges traditional concepts of the British colonial government and its attitude towards communist China. It engages in current debates surrounding Britain’s past by presenting a particularly devious episode of late colonial history.

Author : Dagfinn Gatu
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940300

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Village China at War by Dagfinn Gatu Pdf

A study on the forging of Chinese communism in the furnace of the anti-Japanese war. It focuses on North China, where the Chinese Communist Party first took root and later expanded to conquer China.

Author : Ray Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Asia-Politics and government
ISBN : 3030141497

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Resistance Under Communist China by Ray Wang Pdf

This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism. The author focuses on mechanisms used by three kinds of actors: protesters, advocates and opportunists, and uses regional, inter-faith, and international comparisons to understand why some foreign advocates can enter China and engage in illegal aid and missions to empower local activists, while the same groups cannot conduct the same activities in another geographically, economically and politically similar location. The stories in this book demonstrate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach of transnational activism; they challenge the conventional spiral theory paradigm of human rights literature and the narrow views about GONGOs in civil society literature. This new knowledge helps to sustain a more optimistic view and offers an alternative way of promoting human rights in China and countries with similar authoritarian environments. Ray Wang is Associate Professor at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His major research interests focus on human rights, religious freedom and transnational advocacy networks, and he is the recipient of an Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2018-2021).

Author : Paul P. Mariani
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674265820

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Church Militant by Paul P. Mariani Pdf

By 1952 the Chinese Communist Party had suppressed all organized resistance to its regime and stood unopposed, or so it has been believed. Internal party documents—declassified just long enough for historian Paul Mariani to send copies out of China—disclose that one group deemed an enemy of the state held out after the others had fallen. A party report from Shanghai marked “top-secret” reveals a determined, often courageous resistance by the local Catholic Church. Drawing on centuries of experience in struggling with the Chinese authorities, the Church was proving a stubborn match for the party. Mariani tells the story of how Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic Youth resisted the regime’s punishing assault on the Shanghai Catholic community and refused to renounce the pope and the Church in Rome. Acting clandestinely, mirroring tactics used by the previously underground CCP, Shanghai’s Catholics persevered until 1955, when the party arrested Kung and 1,200 other leading Catholics. The imprisoned believers were later shocked to learn that the betrayal had come from within their own ranks. Though the CCP could not eradicate the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in dividing it. Mariani’s secret history traces the origins of a deep split in the Chinese Catholic community, where relations between the “Patriotic” and underground churches remain strained even today.

Author : Teresa Wright
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781786433787

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Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China by Teresa Wright Pdf

Featuring contributions from top scholars and emerging stars in the field, the Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China captures the complexity of protest and dissent in contemporary China, while simultaneously exploring a number of unifying themes. Examining how, when, and why individuals and groups have engaged in contentious acts, and how the targets of their complaints have responded, the volume sheds light on the stability of China’s existing political system, and its likely future trajectory.

Author : A. Doak Barnett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400874606

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China After Mao by A. Doak Barnett Pdf

One of America's leading authorities on China outlines and assesses the implications of the inevitable passing of Mao Tse-tung and the older generation of revolutionary leaders from their position of command in China. Describing the mid-1960’s as "a transitional period of great historic significance," the author outlines the basic unsolved problems and unresolved issues that face Peking’s leaders, speculates on future changes in Chinese Communist leadership and policies. Part Il of the book presents documents pertinent to the developing crisis in China, including “Khrushchev’s Phoney Communism,” Lin Piao’s “Long Live the Victory of the People’s War,” and “Great Cultural Revolution.” China After Mao is based on the Walter E. Edge lectures given at Princeton University in October 1966. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Chang-tai Hung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520354869

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War and Popular Culture by Chang-tai Hung Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry,Mark Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135149291

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Chinese Society by Elizabeth J. Perry,Mark Selden Pdf

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues.Topics covered include:labour and environmental disputesrural and ethnic conflictmigrationlegal challengesintellectual and religious dissidenceopposition to family planning.The newly.

Author : Richard Louis Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120061341

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China Under Communism by Richard Louis Walker Pdf

"Bibliographic note": pages 329-335. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 337-387).

Author : Daniel Garrett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812872364

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Counter-hegemonic Resistance in China's Hong Kong by Daniel Garrett Pdf

This book and associated collection of visual data and sociological observations examine how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has been visually re-imagined, transformed, and utilized by its subalterns in the post-Handover period to reproduce their aspirations and demands for greater democracy and social justice while simultaneously contesting the hegemonic pressure exerted by China under the “One Country, Two Systems” ideology. It provides a rich visual description and narrative of how Hong Kong’s many repressed social and political actors have struggled to make their voices heard under its competitive authoritarian political system. The book addresses the growing scholarly interest in the visual analysis of global protests and social movements as salient sources of sociological data and on the creation of meaning. By innovatively tackling the visual culture and visuality of subaltern resistance in Hong Kong it contributes to our understanding of contentious SAR-China politics and the New Social Movement, and will be of great interest to Hong Kong, resistance, social movement, and visual studies scholars.

Author : Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760462499

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Afterlives of Chinese Communism by Christian Sorace,Ivan Franceschini,Nicholas Loubere Pdf

Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world- renowned scholars in the China field, from various disciplines and continents. It provides an indispensable guide for understanding how the Mao era continues to shape Chinese politics today. Each chapter discusses a concept or practice from the Mao period, what it attempted to do, and what has become of it since. The authors respond to the legacy of Maoism from numerous perspectives to consider what lessons Chinese communism can offer today, and whether there is a future for the egalitarian politics that it once promised.