Legitimacy crisis in China?

State and Society in 21st-century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 24-49

  Shue, Vivienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203400302     Document Type: Chapter

References (50)

1. E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origins of the Black Act (New York:Pantheon, 1975), p. 258.
2. For some recent scholarly discussions of worker protest, see Ching Kwan Lee, "Pathways of labor insurgency," in Elizabeth Perry and Mark Selden (eds) Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 41-61
3. Ching Kwan Lee, "Lost between histories: labor insurgency and subjectivity in reform China," paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, 22-25 March 2001.
4. Wang Zheng, "Gender, employment and women's resistance," in Perry and Selden, Chinese Society, pp. 62-82.
5. On migrants, seeDorothy Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999);
6. Michael Dutton, Streetlife China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998);
7. Hein Mallee, "Migration, hukou and resistance in reform China," in Perry and Selden, Chinese Society, pp. 83-101;
8. Li Zhang, "Migration and privatization of space and power in late socialist China," American Ethnologist 28(1) (2000):179-205.
9. On peasant protest, see Thomas Bernstein, "Instability in rural China," in David Shambaugh (ed.) Is China Unstable? (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000), pp. 95-111
10. Thomas Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü, Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China: State Capacity, Peasant Resistance, and Democratization, 1985-2000 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
11. See also Lianjiang Li and Kevin O'Brien, "Villagers and popular resistance," Modern China 22(1) (1996): 28-61;
12. Kevin O'Brien, "Rightful resistance," World Politics 49(1) (1996): 31-55;
13. Jonathan Unger, "Power, patronage and protest in rural China," in Tyrene White (ed.) China Briefing 2000 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 2000), pp. 71-94.
14. On artists and intellectuals, see Merle Goldman, "The potential for instability among alienated intellectuals and students in post-Mao China," in Shambaugh, Is China Unstable?, pp. 112-124;
15. Gérémie Barmé, "The revolution of resistance," in Perry and Selden, Chinese Society, pp. 198-220;
16. Robert Efird, "Rock in a hard place: music and the market in nineties Beijing," in Nancy Chen, Constance Clark, Suzanne Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffery (eds) China Urban (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 67-86.
17. On women's issues, see Zheng, "Gender, employment and women's resistance"
18. Tyrene White, "Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign," in Perry and Selden, Chinese Society, pp. 102-119;
19. Cecilia Milwertz, "Control as care: interaction between urban women and birth planning workers," in Kjeld Brødsgaard and David Strand (eds) Reconstructing Twentieth-century China (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 92-112.
20. On ethnic minorities, see June Dreyer, "The potential for instability in minority regions," in Shambaugh, Is China Unstable?, pp. 125-142
21. Uradyn Bulag, "Ethnic resistance with socialist characteristics," in Perry and Selden, Chinese Society, pp. 178-197.
22. And finally, on environmental protests, see Jun Jing, "Environmental protests in rural China," in Perry and Selden, Chinese Society, pp. 143-160.
23. On the White Lotus, see Susan Naquin, Shantung Rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981);
24. on the Taiping, see Franz Michael, The Taiping Rebellion (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966)
25. Jonathan Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996);
26. Joseph Esherick, The Origins of the Boxer Uprising (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)
27. Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
28. Charles Tilly, The Contentious French (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).
29. Max Weber, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), p. 213.
30. The phrase comes from James Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday
31. H. Lyman Miller, "The late imperial Chinese state," in David Shambaugh (ed.) The Modern Chinese State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 17-18.
32. Wong, China Transformed, p. 89.
33. On the ethical value accorded by the state to science and to modernity, see Ann Anagnost, National Past-times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997).
34. On organ donation, see Vivienne Shue, "Donation and the nation: altruism and patriotism in 20th-century China," in Sechin Chien and John Fitzgerald (eds) The Dignity of Nations: Equality, Competition, and Honor in East Asian Nationalism, forthcoming.
35. On the official cultural nationalism of the Chinese state, see Gérémie Barmé, In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), Ch. 10;
36. see also Søren Clausen, "Party policy and 'national culture': towards a state-directed cultural nationalism in China," in Brødsgaard and Strand, Reconstructing Twentieth-century China, pp. 253-279
37. Shue, "Global imaginings." Note in particular the interesting linkage made by Barmé between national-culturalist assertiveness and self-loathing in China. For a different perspective on Chinese national assertiveness and the sense of insecurity
38. see Fei-Ling Wang, "Self-image and strategic intentions: national confidence and political insecurity," in Yong Deng and Fei-Ling Wang (eds) In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), as well as some of the companion essays collected in that volume.
39. For one major study of corruption and communism in China, see Xiaobo Lü, Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000). The pervasiveness of the oppositionist popular discourse on corruption in China today has been widely noted in journalistic and scholarly accounts. In fact, anyone who lives in China, even for a short time, inevitably hears the angry and sometimes threatening complaints made openly by common people against corruption in government.
40. Prasenjit Duara, Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China 1900-1942 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
41. Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 226-227.
42. Kenneth Dean, "Ritual and space: civil society or popular religion?" in Timothy Brook and B. Michael Frolic (eds) Civil Society in China (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), p. 172.
43. See Anagnost, National Past-times, Ch 7. On ethnic tourism and the commodification of minority culture in China
44. Louisa Schein, Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), pp. 155-159 and 125-127.
45. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters, p. 258.
46. Karen Petrone, Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), p. 209. And as Petrone further points out (p. 9), "Although it was published much later, Bakhtin's very influential definition of carnival was written in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s and can itself be read as resistance to the Stalinist order. Bakhtin rejected official Soviet celebrations as the 'official truth' and looked to popular culture for opportunities to overthrow the official discourse, at least temporarily." For more on the recalcitrance of popular culture even during the high-Stalin era
47. Anne Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia:Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).
48. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters, p. 262.
49. To this point, see the moving account of the highly intricate and deeply moral understanding of state, society, legitimacy, and responsibility held by the people of a remote community in south-west China in Erik Mueggler, The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
50. Weber, Economy and Society, p. 953.