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Half title Advance Praise for Force and Contention in Contemporary China Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Title page Imprints page Dedication Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Cast of Characters for Da Fo Village and Several Other Villages in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Area, 1945–2013 Maps Introduction
Pockets of Contention in “Deep China” The Challenge of Studying Contention through Memory in Authoritarian China Oral History Methodology Horizons of Time Individual Encounters with Power Persistent Memories: A Source of Energy against Present-Day Injustice Hot Cognition versus Cold Cognition Engagement with Reform in Deep China A Recovery of Rights Reconciliation versus Revenge Apartheid China and the Struggle for Survival Overview
1 The Violent Dawn of Reform
The Resumption of War Communism Rural Surplus Labor and Petty Crime The Injustice of Yanda in Da Fo Public Security and the Yanda Racket Responses to the Injustice of Yanda The Social Cost of Yanda in the Countryside The Paradox of Yanda and Reform in the Countryside
2 Contemporary Tax Resistance and the Memory of the Great Leap
The GREAT Leap-Era Roots of Villagers’ Objections to the Rising Tax Burden Forms of Tax Resistance in the 1990s Tax Protest and the State
3 Birth Planning and Popular Resistance
Reproduction and Security in Early-Reform-Era Da Fo The Escalating Violence of Birth Planning in Da Fo Feigned Compliance with Birth Planning, 1992–1995 The Development of a Bottom-Line Local Policy, 1996–2000
4 Rural Schools and the “Best Citizens of the State”
The Impact of the Great Leap Forward on Da Fo’s Teachers Grievances under Reform Forms of Teacher Resistance in the 1990s Case Study: Bao Sheping and the Great Leap Link to Teachers’ Reform-Era Suffering The Struggle for the Return of Benevolent and Reasoned Governance The Qualified Loyalty of Reluctant Rebels
5 Official Corruption and Popular Contention in the Reform Era
A Pattern of Corruption Levels of Corruption Affecting Village Life
Reform-Era Corruption at the Village Level Reform-Era Corruption at the Township and County Levels Corruption and the Liangmen Township Police
Resistance to Police Corruption and the Disorder and Lawlessness of Reform Locating the Root of Corruption at the Top and Seeing through the Center’s Anticorruption Fanfare Corruption, Memory, and Contentious Resistance
6 The Rise of the Electricity Tigers
Reform Captured by Nonreformers: The Li Peng Electricity Empire The Rise of the Electricity Tigers in Da Fo Village Corruption and the Activation of Contentious Memories The Mystique of Benevolent Governance and the Sham of Reform with Rights
7 The Defeat of the Democratic Experiment and Its Consequences
Origins of the Popular Desire for Democracy The Corruption of the Vote: Popular Preferences, Party Practices The Surge of Mao Fever Police Repression and the Fate of Civil Society Villagers’ Views on Rebellion
8 Contentious Petitioners and the Revival of Mao-Era Repression
Petitioning in the Mao and Reform Eras A Petitioner’s Life
The Pakistan National Defense Highway The Party-State Betrayal and the Emergence of Petitioning
Why Did Petitioning Explode in the Second Decade of Reform?
A Pattern of Systemic Political Repression Regime Intransigence and the Suppression of Petitioning by the Central Government Economic and Emotional Roots of the Quest for Compensatory Justice Choosing to Defy the State
Petitioning and Popular Thinking about State Power
9 Migration and Contention in the Construction Sector
Push Factors The Limits of Labor Mobility
Bad Wages, Bad Food Overwork and Exhaustion Renewed Confinement The Dangers of the Work Site A World without Doctors The Great Fear: Accidental Deaths and the Connection with the Great Leap Past
Strategies of Contention, Tools of Resistance Subcontractors, Crony Capitalism, and the Inherited Past
10 The Rise of the Martial Artists and the Two Faces of Mafia
How Martial Artists Supplanted Communist Leadership in Da Fo The Formation of a Patron–Client Network of Martial Artists
Basic Subsistence Services, Everyday Livelihood Protection and Security Crisis Social Relief Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Influence over Rural Transport and Communication Networks
The Rise of Violent Entrepreneurs The Brotherhood Becomes a Mafia
The Iron Bond of Friendship The Code of Honor and Violence Popular Contention and Collective Action
How Martial Artists See the State
Double Identity of the Martial Artists The Righteous Path of Contention and the Tragedy of Bao Yinbao and His Brotherhood
Into the Black Hole of China’s Authoritarian Political System
Conclusion
A Fissured Legitimacy The False Peace of Reform and the Role of Episodic Memory in Resistance The Contentious Near-Future The Stability and Durability of the Authoritarian Political System Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors of Reform and the Argument for Regime Resiliency Unknown China, Tocqueville, and the Uncertain Future
Bibliography
Chinese Sources English Sources
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