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China Since Tiananmen

A New Rights Consciousness

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ID6286429
AuthorsElizabeth J Perry (0000-0002-7943-2097, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume20
Issue3
Pages17-20
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.0.0111
OpenAlexW1996579038
LanguageEN
Citations received39

Despite the suppression of the Tiananmen Uprising of 1989, popular protest in China has by all accounts escalated steadily over the ensuing two decades. These protests have spread to virtually every sector of Chinese society, prompting more than a few observers to proclaim the emergence of a "rising rights consciousness" that poses a protodemocratic challenge to the authority and durability of the Communist state. This essay proposes instead that what we are seeing in China today reflects a much older rules consciousness , in which savvy protesters frame their grievances in officially-approved terms in order to negotiate a better bargain with the authoritarian state

Authoritarianism · China · Communism · Consciousness · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Negotiation · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy

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