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Reviews 429 6. Hok-lam Chan, Legitimation in Imperial China: Discussions under the Jurchen-Chin Dynasty (11151234) (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984). 7. Hok-lam Chan, China and the Mongols: History and Legend under the Yüan and Ming. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1999). Xi Chen. Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 256 pp. Hardcover $95.00, isbn 978-1-107-01486-2. In most studies of social movement in China and elsewhere, protest and authoritarianism are often treated as two contradictory phenomena. Contentious authoritarianism, therefore, seems to be a contradiction in term. Xi Chen, however, has made an intriguing case in this book about how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been tolerating or even facilitating contentious politics from below to help maintain its authoritarian rule. The questions that the book addresses have been dealt with by many other authors: What accounted for the surge of social protests all over China in the 1990s and how did the CCP survive it? Many authors have given many different answers. Some argue the CCP dealt with these protests by repressing them selectively. It repressed those that started to spill over beyond a local region and develop coalitions with dissident
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Apr 15, 2012
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