<i>Mao's Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China's Great Leap Forward</i>. Alfred L. Chan

Thaxton, Ralph A.

doi:10.2307/3182447

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“…Autocrats consistently mobilize people with incumbent advantage and/or strong authoritarian discipline/institutions. For example, during the Mao era, the Chinese Communist Party mobilized people with campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution (Bachman and Bachman 2006;Lovell 2020;Chan 2001;Dickson 2014). Through those mass mobilizations, authoritarian incumbents could strengthen their power (Hellmeier and Weidmann 2020).…”

Section: Democratization and Mobilization Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authoritarian Successor Parties, Supporters, and Protest: Lessons from Asian Democracies

Lee

2023

J. East Asian Stud.

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Are authoritarian successor party (ASP) supporters more likely to protest? I propose that ASP supporters are less likely to protest in general. The post-democratization mobilization environment is shaped upon the pre-democratization mobilization basis. During the pre-democratization period, protest was organized around the democracy movement. Thus, protest tactics and networks were accumulated through it. As former authoritarian ruling party supporters, ASP supporters are less likely to have legacies of participating in the democracy movement, which prevents them from accessing the accumulated protest resources from the democracy movement. However, I argue that this negative association varies based on the ASP qualities and supporters’ age. Supporters of ASPs that maintain strong pre-democratization legacies are more likely to participate in protests than supporters of ASPs that do not strongly highlight their authoritarian legacies. Also, when the ASPs’ characteristics are considered, older ASP supporters are more likely to participate in protests than younger supporters. Using both single-level and multilevel statistical analyses, I examine four Asian countries with politically powerful ASPs and find evidence supporting my hypotheses. Lastly, I compare two South Korean mass movements, the Candlelight movement and the Taegeukgi rallies to unpack the relationships between ASP supporters, protest resources, and mobilization. This study reveals authoritarian legacies among post-democratization citizens through ASP supporters’ protesting behavior.

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Section: Democratization and Mobilization Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authoritarian Successor Parties, Supporters, and Protest: Lessons from Asian Democracies

Lee

2023

J. East Asian Stud.

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“…To quell possible rural opposition to collective agriculture, farming cooperatives were established to increase rural families' production efficiency while preserving their land ownership and traditional practices. 49 However, widespread corruption, forced labor, and appalling working conditions led to a rapid spread in poverty rates.…”

Section: Maoist Chinamentioning

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The Strength and Resilience of Shim-pua Marriage

Zuo

2023

J Stud Res

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Shim-pua marriage, also known as tongyangxi, is a traditional Chinese practice where a poorer family’s infant daughter is sold into a wealthier family in exchange for a dowry. The daughter would grow up in the new family, often subjected to difficult chores and maidwork. As the girl matured, she would then be forcefully married to one of the family’s sons. Shim-pua marriage persisted through multiple phases of cultural, social, and political change. But this persistence is indicative of a larger social phenomena. The recurrence of the practice results from the failure of top-down intervention to change underlying social norms. Additionally, Shim-pua marriage is closely connected to modern issues such as human trafficking. This paper provides an in-depth view and analysis of historical revolutions, government action, and people’s response with respect to Shim-pua marriage. It explores the underlying causes of the practice’s persistence, and the socio-economic conditions that fueled it.

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“…In the nineteenth century, the Japanese state constructed proto-factories to diffuse relevant knowledge to private firms (Tipton 2008;53-54). During the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese government requisitioned pots and pans from citizens to produce steel out of scrap metals in "backyard furnaces" (Chan 2001). Emphasis may be placed on expanding industrial exports, as was common in East Asia (Wade 2003); protecting domestic industries against international competition, as in several Latin American countries (see, e.g., Gereffi, Wyman 1990); or forcibly transforming the economy from agriculture to manufacturing, as in Stalin's USSR (Davies et al 1994;Shearer 1996).…”

Section: Industrialization and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%