Contemporary Chinese Society & Popular Culture

APSS1B17 / APSS1B17M
2-5 p.m.; BC402; Online: LEARN@PolyU (digital blackboard)

Dr Jenny Chan 陳慧玲

Office tel.: 2766 5743; Office location: HJ433
Email: jenny.wl.chan@polyu.edu.hk

Lecture 2 (17 July 2019): Politics

References
Tanner, Murray Scot. 2004. “China Rethinks Unrest.” The Washington Quarterly 27(3): 137-56.
Wedeman, Andrew. 2019. “Unrest and Regime Survival.” Pp. 12-26 in Handbook of Protest and
Resistance in China, edited by Teresa Wright. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Whyte, Martin King. 2015. “China’s Dormant and Active Social Volcanoes.” The China Journal
75: 9-37.

Audio-visual resources
National Anthem of the People’s Republic of China (Mandarin, with English subtitles)
Tank Man, 5 June 1989 (Apple Daily, Hong Kong); news archive
“Ten Years” (2015), an award-winning film with five Hong Kong stories, directed by Kwok
Zune, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, and Ng Ka-leung
(1) France 24 – English
(2) Official trailer (in Cantonese) with English subtitles

Additional references
Bandelj, Nina and Dorothy J. Solinger, eds. 2012. Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged:
Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cai, Yongshun. 2010. Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Carlson, Allen Mary E. Gallagher, Kenneth Lieberthal and Melanie Manion, eds. 2010.
Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Chen, Xi. 2012. Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Deng, Yanhua and Kevin J. O’Brien. 2013. “Relational Repression in China: Using Social Ties to
Demobilize Protesters.” The China Quarterly 215 (September): 533-52.
Foucault, Michel. 1975. Discipline and Punish. New York: Vintage Books.
Heilmann, Sebastian, ed. 2017. China’s Political System. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
MacFarquhar, Roderick, ed. [1993] 1997. The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng. 2nd
Edition. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge.
O’Brien, Kevin J. and Yanhua Deng. 2017. “Preventing Protest One Person at a Time:
Psychological Coercion and Relational Repression in China.” The China Review 17(2): 179-
201.
Pei, Minxin. 2016. China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
Perry, Elizabeth J. and Mark Selden, eds. 2010. Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and
Resistance. 3rd Edition. London: Routledge.
Piven, Frances Fox and Richard A. Cloward. 1979. Poor People’s Movements: Why they
Succeed, How they Fail. New York: Vintage.
Sewell, William H. Jr. 2005. Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Shambaugh, David. 2016. China’s Future. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Shirk, Susan L. 1993. The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Tanner, Murray Scot. 2005. “Chinese Government Responses to Rising Social Unrest.” The
RAND Corporation: 1-14.
Tarrow, Sidney. 2011. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Updated
and Revised 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds. 1994. Popular Protest and Political Culture
in Modern China. 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.
Williams, John. 2010. “‘Attacking Queshan’: Popular Culture and the Creation of a
Revolutionary Folklore in Southern Henan.” Modern China 36(6): 644–75.
Wright, Teresa, ed. 2019. Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China. Cheltenham, UK:
Edward Elgar Publishing.