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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 February 2019
      21 February 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108685382
      9781108482998
      9781108716017
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108685382
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 230 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
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    Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect.

    Reviews

    ‘Junker's incisive analysis of the two largest and most organized citizen movements in China's reform era - Falun Gong and the post-1989 democracy movement - is an invaluable resource for scholars of contentious politics and state-society relations, as well as those seeking to understand the direction of politics within the overseas Chinese diaspora.'

    Carl Minzner - Fordham University School of Law, New York

    ‘Becoming Activists in Global China is an extraordinarily interesting book. Employing impressive hermeneutic skills, Junker comes up with one eye-popping cultural interpretation after another. These empirical discoveries serve Junker's broader, theoretical ambition, which is to demonstrate that shared meanings - what he terms ‘in-group culture' - play a much more consequential role in the formation of social movements than previous sociological thinking has allowed.'

    Jeffrey C. Alexander - Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University, Connecticut

    ‘An excellent book, meticulously researched, clearly written, and theoretically path-breaking.'

    David A. Palmer - author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China

    'The book is methodologically solid, empirically nuanced, and theoretically provocative. Each page is an intellectually rewarding experience.'

    Rongbin Han Source: Mobilization

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