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Subject: Social movements
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States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour of Takashi Shiraishi
E-book
edited by Khoo Boo Teik and Jafar Suryomenggolo With contributions from leading scholars in their field, this collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for his many […]
China studies, Culture. humanities, Japanese studies, Political Science, Religion, Social movements, Social sciences, Storytelling
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Clouds over Tianshan: Essays on Social Disturbance in Xinjiang in the 1940’s
E-book
David D. Wang 1999 The 1940s saw the outbreak of the so-called Yili rebellion which led to the collapse of Chinese state authority over a wide area of Xinjiang in the chaotic years of the later 1940s. Much of the story has been told before but what is especially interesting here is Wang’s demonstration that […]
Read moreBeijing Women Organizing for Change: A New Wave of the Chinese Women’s Movement
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Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz 2011 Independent and quasi-independent organizing in China really began earliest in the women’s community but the importance of this 15-year experience has not been documented adequately. The book first introduces the emergence since the mid-1980s of new types of women’s organization in China from the earlier situation of the All-China Women’s Federation […]
Read moreCivil Society and Democratization: Social Movements in Northeast Thailand
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Somchai Phatharathananunth 2011 This book is for anyone wondering whatever happened to Thailands vanished Marxist insurgents or interested in understanding the forces behind the mass demonstrations of peasants that periodically descend on Bangkok. Specifically, the book investigates the struggle of an important social movement in Thailand, the Small Scale Farmers’ Assembly of Isan (SSFAI), and […]
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