China Perspective Issues
Jean Philippe Béja
Dossier : cinq ans après le 4 juin, la société échappe-t-elle au pouvoir ?Une société menacée par la criseLe rapport de l’Académie des sciences sociales
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The Impact of the June 4th Massacre on the pro-Democracy Movement
The Chinese pro-democracy movement crushed by the People’s Liberation Army on 4 June 1989 was preceded by many protests by intellectuals. The crackdown deprived the democrats of their protectors in the Party, and forced them to change strategies. Unable to organise large-scale demonstrations, dissidents launched petitions demanding respect for human rights and reversal of the official verdict on June 4th. They were joined by the Tiananmen Mothers, who became a new force in the pro-democracy movement. Yet, China’s democracy activists remain largely isolated from the rest of society.
Christine Loh, Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
Christine Loh, Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
Forbidden Memory, Unwritten History: The Difficulty of Structuring an Opposition Movement in the PRC
This paper suggests how control over transmission of memory by the Party, applying China's own dynastic tradition of reinterpreting history, and borrowing the Soviet practice of erasing people and events from records, has hindered the structuring of an opposition movement. Every resistance movement since 1949 has had to start from scratch as their actors, isolated from the past, see themselves as innovators. The paper analyses the 1957 Anti-Rightist Movement and the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations to illustrate the thesis.
Les travailleurs itinérants, des immigrés de l’intérieur
Is Hong Kong Developing a Democratic Political Culture?
1989-1994: Le difficile réveil de l’opposition
Quarante-cinq ans et toujours plus courtisée
Christine Loh, Underground Front – The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
Quand « les élites » tirent les leçons d’un massacre : le nouveau néo-autoritarisme
Au loup !
Frémissements dans le monde de la dissidence
La dure école de l’exilEssai sur la culture politique de l’opposition chinoise
Le glissement progressif vers la Chine
Sally Blyth et Ian Wotherspoon : Hong Kong Remembers
Comment apparaissent les couches socialesLa différenciation sociale chez les paysans immigrés du « Village du Henan » à Pékin (deuxième partie)
Tiananmen, dix ans aprèsUne rupture dans l'histoire de l'opposition en Chine
The new working class renews the repertoire of social conflict
ABSTRACT: The strikes that shook the factories of the Pearl River Delta in 2010 revealed the emergence of a new generation of workers of peasant origin. Better educated and more demanding than their parents, they used new communication techniques to launch a movement that borrowed from the protest repertoire developed over the last decade. Despite this, it cannot really be said that a social movement has emerged.
KEY WORDS: social movement, strike, dagong zai, protest repertoire, collective bargaining, unions