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books:

Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice

Stanford University Press, 2005

This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal institutions in contemporary China. One section of the book focuses on the legal process: how law is mobilized by ordinary people to redress injustice, the role of legal culture, the extent to which citizens can sue state officials, and how disputes involving workers and veterans are settled. A second set of papers explores specific legal ...

Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

1 review
Kevin J. O'Brien, Lianjiang Li

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Contentious politics in rural China
This short book lays out, conceptually, what kind of contentious politics "Rightful Resistance" is and where in the literature its place should be. Rightful Resistance is somewhere between James Scott's "everyday forms of resistance," on the one hand, and the sustained nature implied in Charles Tilly's notion that social movements are "campaigns." "Unlike rebels in the name of the tsar, ...

Popular Protest in China (Harvard Contemporary China Series)

Harvard University Press, 2008

Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled. The contributors to this volume, all prominent scholars of Chinese politics and society, argue that ideas inspired by social ...

Reform without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change
Kevin J. O'Brien

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Since its founding in 1954, the National People's Congress of China (NPC) has followed a difficult course of development, a course which has been characterized by periods of limited progress intermingled with periods of stagnation and regression. Political campaigns from the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957-1958) to the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) to the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) frustrated the establishment of any consistent policy ...

CTHULHU'S CREATURES

1 review
Steve; John B. Ford, Jeff Hill (editors) Simon Clark (introduction) Joseph S. Pulver, Ann K. Schwader, Simon Clark, Simon Whitechapel, Kevin O'Brien, Stanley C. Sargent, C.J. Henderson, Ron Shiflet, John Shire, Robert M. Price, Tim Curran, et al Lines

JnJ Publications & Rainfall Books, 2007

Selection of stories from Rainfall Books' chapbooks
Cthulhu's Creatures was released in 2007 and I have only now gotten around to reviewing it. There are a number of reasons for that; I suppose my problem was that although I mostly enjoyed this book, the best stories were all reprints I already had, mythos poetry is just about never any good and the worst stories were not so hot. Rainfall Books is an enterprising press in the UK which produces ...