China Since Tiananmen: A New Rights Consciousness?
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Perry, Elizabeth J. 2009. China Since Tiananmen: A New Rights Consciousness? Journal of Democracy 20 (3): 17-20. doi: 10.1353/jod.0.0111Abstract
Despite the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen Uprising of 1989, the frequency of popular protest in China has by all accounts escalated steadily over the ensuing two decades. These protests—increasingly articulated in a language of “legal rights”—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.Terms of Use
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