Neil J Diamant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil J Diamant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil J |
| FAMILY NAME | Diamant |
| SIGNATURE | DIAMANT N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dickinson College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Textual Anxiety: Reading (and Misreading) the Draft Constitution in China, 1954
This article uses comments, questions, and conversations about the PRC's draft constitution of 1954 to assess state legitimacy and how people felt more generally about the Communist regime. Taking advantage of untapped archival sources in Hong Kong and the mainland—including classified intraparty reports and transcripts from meetings in factories, police stations, universities, and villages—this article challenges the conventional view that the c…
Veterans’ Political Activism in China
This article examines protest, petitioning, lawsuits, open letters, blogging, and other forms of activism by Chinese veterans. Moving beyond images of heroic soldiers in the official media, and the near absence of reporting on veterans’ problems, we draw mainly on blog posts and military websites where veterans share their experiences of post-army life. We find that, overall, veterans have had difficulty adjusting to the economic, social, cultura…
Contentious Veterans: China’s Retired Officers Speak Out
What drives retired military officers in China toward contention? Decades of research on protest has produced little on veterans' collection action, and even less on that by ex-officers. Newspaper reports, police journals, and veterans' blogs show that contention by Chinese former officers (ranging from occupying government compounds to marches, mass petitioning, open letters, and class action lawsuits) is the result of bad luck in post-military …
The PRC’s First National Critique: The 1954 Campaign to “Discuss the Draft Constitution”
This article is the first detailed exposition of the “National Discussion of the Draft Constitution”. In mid-1954, Chinese engaged in a wide-ranging deliberation about political and social rights, the obligations of citizenship, state symbols, political institutions and ideology. Many asked penetrating and frequently prescient questions about law, citizenship, class and political power, and offered provocative suggestions for revision. Using arch…
Conspicuous Silence: Veterans and the Depoliticization of War Memory in China
This paper explores the unusually weak voice of Chinese war veterans in post-1949 politics society and culture. Although Chinese movies and television often feature military-related themes, it is rare to find frank and politicized depictions of China's military conflicts. In this respect, China departs sharply from the former Soviet Union-China's Leninist model for most of its formative years-as well as Vietnam, European inter-war fascist regimes…
Veterans, Organization, and the Politics of Martial Citizenship in China
This article examines the organizational origins of political vulnerability among Chinese military veterans between 1949 and 2006. Recently declassified sources from urban and rural archives show that many veterans, even as they were officially considered core members of the ruling elite and hailed as the “flesh and blood of the revolution,” nevertheless experienced frequent humiliation and discrimination; few citizens sympathized with their plig…
Law and Society in the People’s Republic of China
This introduction to Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice (2005) addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal institutions in contemporary China. It underscores several perspectives that are useful for understanding how law and society interact, and shows how they might inform future research. In particular, it highlights how concepts such as legal mobilization, the disputing pyramid, disputing…
Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice
This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies
Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China's Ethnic Frontier, 1949-1966
This article explains how minority women in rural China managed to use state legal and political institutions to obtain a divorce, despite numerous obstacles. Beginning with a legal controversy over why women from the Yi minority were going to court for "fun" and then divorcing their husbands, I proceed to look at the many factors that may have contributed to divorce in rural China, such as state ethnic policy, generational empowerment, culture, …
Making Love 'Legible' in China: Politics and Society during the Enforcement of Civil Marriage Registration, 1950-66
This article looks at marriage registration as a window into state building and state-family relations in Maoist China. It focuses on the interaction between officials and citizens as they tried to make sense of the new state's unprecedented demand that people register their marriages prior to their consummation. Marriage registration was expected to make Chinese society more 'legible' to the state, as well as contribute to a 'healthier' nation. …
Revolutionizing the FamilyPolitics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968
In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, the text draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law w…
Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949–1968
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in China: Beyond Mediation-Centered Approaches
It is commonly assumed that conflicts in China and other Asian countries that share its cultural heritage are resolved through mediation rather than adjudication or appeals to political institutions. Archival sources in China and interviews with urban and rural officials reveal that the preference for mediation in China and other Asian and even Western societies is largely correlated with region, class, and gender and therefore does not constitut…
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in China: Beyond Mediation-Centered Approaches
It is commonly assumed that conflicts in China and other Asian countries that share its cultural heritage are resolved through mediation rather than adjudication or appeals to political institutions. Archival sources in China and interviews with urban and rural officials reveal that the preference for mediation in China and other Asian and even Western societies is largely correlated with region, class, and gender and therefore does not constitut…
Making Love 'Legible' in China: Politics and Society during the Enforcement of Civil Marriage Registration, 1950-66
This article looks at marriage registration as a window into state building and state-family relations in Maoist China. It focuses on the interaction between officials and citizens as they tried to make sense of the new state's unprecedented demand that people register their marriages prior to their consummation. Marriage registration was expected to make Chinese society more 'legible' to the state, as well as contribute to a 'healthier' nation. …
Conspicuous Silence: Veterans and the Depoliticization of War Memory in China
This paper explores the unusually weak voice of Chinese war veterans in post-1949 politics society and culture. Although Chinese movies and television often feature military-related themes, it is rare to find frank and politicized depictions of China's military conflicts. In this respect, China departs sharply from the former Soviet Union-China's Leninist model for most of its formative years-as well as Vietnam, European inter-war fascist regimes…
Veterans’ Political Activism in China
This article examines protest, petitioning, lawsuits, open letters, blogging, and other forms of activism by Chinese veterans. Moving beyond images of heroic soldiers in the official media, and the near absence of reporting on veterans’ problems, we draw mainly on blog posts and military websites where veterans share their experiences of post-army life. We find that, overall, veterans have had difficulty adjusting to the economic, social, cultura…
Contentious Veterans: China’s Retired Officers Speak Out
What drives retired military officers in China toward contention? Decades of research on protest has produced little on veterans' collection action, and even less on that by ex-officers. Newspaper reports, police journals, and veterans' blogs show that contention by Chinese former officers (ranging from occupying government compounds to marches, mass petitioning, open letters, and class action lawsuits) is the result of bad luck in post-military …
Veterans, Organization, and the Politics of Martial Citizenship in China
This article examines the organizational origins of political vulnerability among Chinese military veterans between 1949 and 2006. Recently declassified sources from urban and rural archives show that many veterans, even as they were officially considered core members of the ruling elite and hailed as the “flesh and blood of the revolution,” nevertheless experienced frequent humiliation and discrimination; few citizens sympathized with their plig…
Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China's Ethnic Frontier, 1949-1966
This article explains how minority women in rural China managed to use state legal and political institutions to obtain a divorce, despite numerous obstacles. Beginning with a legal controversy over why women from the Yi minority were going to court for "fun" and then divorcing their husbands, I proceed to look at the many factors that may have contributed to divorce in rural China, such as state ethnic policy, generational empowerment, culture, …
Revolutionizing the FamilyPolitics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968
In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, the text draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law w…
Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949–1968
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in China: Beyond Mediation-Centered Approaches
It is commonly assumed that conflicts in China and other Asian countries that share its cultural heritage are resolved through mediation rather than adjudication or appeals to political institutions. Archival sources in China and interviews with urban and rural officials reveal that the preference for mediation in China and other Asian and even Western societies is largely correlated with region, class, and gender and therefore does not constitut…
Pursuing Rights and Getting Justice on China's Ethnic Frontier, 1949-1966
This article explains how minority women in rural China managed to use state legal and political institutions to obtain a divorce, despite numerous obstacles. Beginning with a legal controversy over why women from the Yi minority were going to court for "fun" and then divorcing their husbands, I proceed to look at the many factors that may have contributed to divorce in rural China, such as state ethnic policy, generational empowerment, culture, …
Making Love 'Legible' in China: Politics and Society during the Enforcement of Civil Marriage Registration, 1950-66
This article looks at marriage registration as a window into state building and state-family relations in Maoist China. It focuses on the interaction between officials and citizens as they tried to make sense of the new state's unprecedented demand that people register their marriages prior to their consummation. Marriage registration was expected to make Chinese society more 'legible' to the state, as well as contribute to a 'healthier' nation. …
Law and Society in the People’s Republic of China
This introduction to Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice (2005) addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal institutions in contemporary China. It underscores several perspectives that are useful for understanding how law and society interact, and shows how they might inform future research. In particular, it highlights how concepts such as legal mobilization, the disputing pyramid, disputing…
Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice
This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies
Veterans, Organization, and the Politics of Martial Citizenship in China
This article examines the organizational origins of political vulnerability among Chinese military veterans between 1949 and 2006. Recently declassified sources from urban and rural archives show that many veterans, even as they were officially considered core members of the ruling elite and hailed as the “flesh and blood of the revolution,” nevertheless experienced frequent humiliation and discrimination; few citizens sympathized with their plig…
Conspicuous Silence: Veterans and the Depoliticization of War Memory in China
This paper explores the unusually weak voice of Chinese war veterans in post-1949 politics society and culture. Although Chinese movies and television often feature military-related themes, it is rare to find frank and politicized depictions of China's military conflicts. In this respect, China departs sharply from the former Soviet Union-China's Leninist model for most of its formative years-as well as Vietnam, European inter-war fascist regimes…
The PRC’s First National Critique: The 1954 Campaign to “Discuss the Draft Constitution”
This article is the first detailed exposition of the “National Discussion of the Draft Constitution”. In mid-1954, Chinese engaged in a wide-ranging deliberation about political and social rights, the obligations of citizenship, state symbols, political institutions and ideology. Many asked penetrating and frequently prescient questions about law, citizenship, class and political power, and offered provocative suggestions for revision. Using arch…
Veterans’ Political Activism in China
This article examines protest, petitioning, lawsuits, open letters, blogging, and other forms of activism by Chinese veterans. Moving beyond images of heroic soldiers in the official media, and the near absence of reporting on veterans’ problems, we draw mainly on blog posts and military websites where veterans share their experiences of post-army life. We find that, overall, veterans have had difficulty adjusting to the economic, social, cultura…
Contentious Veterans: China’s Retired Officers Speak Out
What drives retired military officers in China toward contention? Decades of research on protest has produced little on veterans' collection action, and even less on that by ex-officers. Newspaper reports, police journals, and veterans' blogs show that contention by Chinese former officers (ranging from occupying government compounds to marches, mass petitioning, open letters, and class action lawsuits) is the result of bad luck in post-military …
Textual Anxiety: Reading (and Misreading) the Draft Constitution in China, 1954
This article uses comments, questions, and conversations about the PRC's draft constitution of 1954 to assess state legitimacy and how people felt more generally about the Communist regime. Taking advantage of untapped archival sources in Hong Kong and the mainland—including classified intraparty reports and transcripts from meetings in factories, police stations, universities, and villages—this article challenges the conventional view that the c…
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · China (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works)