Abstract
we have analyzed the first type of group contentious politics – legal contentions. In this chapter, we will examine the second type of contentious politics – group incidents. Group incidents have gained attention due to the development of scale, intensity, and type since the 1990s. The rise of group incidents where interest unrelated people are the objects has especially become a symbol of the contentious politics in China since the 1990s. We will first describe the process of two selected group incidents and conduct a comparative study.
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Notes
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The so-called “facade households” refer to residents that do small business by the street for a living.
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The following interpretations of field-being in philosophy are mainly from the exposition in Song (1995). We are just applying these interpretations in the analysis of “field” in group incidents.
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In the Lantern Festival in 2009, the group incident in Guizhou Province Tongren County was caused by the prohibition of the local dragon dance activities by the government in order to prevent group incidents.
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Ying, X. (2013). Group Incidents: From Vigor to “Field”. In: A Study of the Stability of Contemporary Rural Chinese Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36400-6_8
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