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Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China - Ong, Lynette H
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"How do states coercive citizens into compliance and minimize backlash at the same time? Outsourcing Repression portrays state engagement of nonstate actors-violent street gangsters and nonviolent grassroots brokers-to coerce and mobilize the masses for state pursuits in a manner that reduces resistance. This book draws on 200 interviews from ethnographic research conducted annually over a decade (2011-2019) from the era of Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government ...

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Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China 2022, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197628775

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Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China 2022, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197628768

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