Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past

by Ralph A Thaxton Jr and Ralph A. Thaxton Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110753982X
• ISBN13: 9781107539822
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"