Outsourcing repression : everyday state power in contemporary China / Lynette H. Ong.
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University: ; Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (xx, 263 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197628805Subject(s): Political persecution -- China
| Social control -- China | Government, Resistance to -- China | Power (Social sciences) -- China | Urbanization -- Political aspects -- China | Gangs -- Political aspects -- China | China -- Politics and government -- 2002- | Politics and Government | Politics & governmentAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197628768DDC classification: 323.0440951 LOC classification: JC599.C6 | O58 2022Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Lynette H. Ong tells the story of how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors-from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers. Drawing from a decade of ethnographic research from 2011 to 2019, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government regulations, Ong shows how the state uses these nonstate actors to coerce and mobilize the masses, while reducing resistance. Theorizing a counterintuitive form of state repression, she uses China's urbanization scheme to examine how authoritarian states can successfully enlist a small segment of society to gain acquiescence from the larger segments of society.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lynette H. Ong tells the story of how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors-from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers. Drawing from a decade of ethnographic research from 2011 to 2019, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government regulations, Ong shows how the state uses these nonstate actors to coerce and mobilize the masses, while reducing resistance. Theorizing a counterintuitive form of state repression, she uses China's urbanization scheme to examine how authoritarian states can successfully enlist a small segment of society to gain acquiescence from the larger segments of society.
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