Force and Contention in Contemporary China Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters for Da Fo Village and Several Other Villages in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area, 1945–2013
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The Violent Dawn of Reform
- 2 Contemporary Tax Resistance and the Memory of the Great Leap
- 3 Birth Planning and Popular Resistance
- 4 Rural Schools and the “Best Citizens of the State”: The Struggle for Knowledge and Empowerment in the Aftermath of the Great Leap
- 5 Official Corruption and Popular Contention in the Reform Era
- 6 The Rise of the Electricity Tigers: Monopoly, Corruption, and Memory
- 7 The Defeat of the Democratic Experiment and Its Consequences
- 8 Contentious Petitioners and the Revival of Mao-Era Repression
- 9 Migration and Contention in the Construction Sector
- 10 The Rise of the Martial Artists and the Two Faces of Mafia
- Conclusion: Big Questions and Small Answers from Da Fo
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Cast of Characters for Da Fo Village and Several Other Villages in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area, 1945–2013
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The Violent Dawn of Reform
- 2 Contemporary Tax Resistance and the Memory of the Great Leap
- 3 Birth Planning and Popular Resistance
- 4 Rural Schools and the “Best Citizens of the State”: The Struggle for Knowledge and Empowerment in the Aftermath of the Great Leap
- 5 Official Corruption and Popular Contention in the Reform Era
- 6 The Rise of the Electricity Tigers: Monopoly, Corruption, and Memory
- 7 The Defeat of the Democratic Experiment and Its Consequences
- 8 Contentious Petitioners and the Revival of Mao-Era Repression
- 9 Migration and Contention in the Construction Sector
- 10 The Rise of the Martial Artists and the Two Faces of Mafia
- Conclusion: Big Questions and Small Answers from Da Fo
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Force and Contention in Contemporary ChinaMemory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016