Keeping Democracy Safe from the Masses: Intellectuals and Elitism in the Chinese Protest Movement

Kelliher, Daniel R.

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“…Chinese university students were at the forefront to embrace leftist Marxism and socialism. As young intellectuals, they have historically performed the critical task of propagating and circulating democratic ideas within opposition movements (Kelliher, 1993). Students were also actively involved in the articulation of nationalist sentiment (Altbach, 1989; Perry, 2015).…”

Section: Student Movement Regime Legitimacy and Research On Campus Tr...mentioning

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Why There Has Been No Anti-Regime Movement on College Campus in China for Three Decades? A Survey Study at Thirty-Five Universities (2015–2018) and Its Implications

Zhang

Narayanan

Feng

2023

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Since the suppression of the student movement in 1989, there has not been any anti-regime or pro-democracy student movement for over three decades in China. What does this suggest? Apart from the known strengthened campus control by the authority which might have forestalled it to some extent, are there alternative reasons? Has the government drawn lessons from the past and since improved its governance, thus effectively enervated student motives to challenge the government? In order to demystify what is behind, the researchers conducted an extensive survey at over thirty-five universities across China from 2015 through 2018. Through analysing the 1,859 valid responses received, the study found that current college students give a high approval rating to the status quo of the country, and they also hold strong optimism for the future. This result may indicate that there is no strong incentive for them, like the generation of the students in the 1980s, to push forward any dramatic political, economic and social changes. The West may need to take this prospect into consideration in their interactions with China, which may enjoy a long period of relative stability without political challenges from college students in the foreseeable future.

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Section: Student Movement Regime Legitimacy and Research On Campus Tr...mentioning

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Why There Has Been No Anti-Regime Movement on College Campus in China for Three Decades? A Survey Study at Thirty-Five Universities (2015–2018) and Its Implications

Zhang

Narayanan

Feng

2023

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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“…This failure to construct an overarching, popular dissident project is partly a result of the authoritarian practices routinised in contemporary China, from Internet surveillance to detention in labour camps to the everyday presence of street wardens and police. Another partial explanation is provided in the assertion by Kelliher (1993) that one of the reasons has been dissidents' demand of liberalization, instead of democratisation.…”

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A cyberconflict analysis of Chinese dissidents focusing on civil society, mass incidents and labour resistance

2015

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

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“…Among English-speaking countries, Australia and Canada recruited more of what were called language students from China than did the USA (Orleans, 1988;Huang, 1997;Mann, 1999;Qian, 2003). Even considering an elite-mass dichotomy (Kelliher, 1993), the PRC student population in Australia was not simply an elite group. thinking on identity, especially on strategic identity or performativity, showed itself to be a useful guide (Butler, 1993;Jacobs and Fincher, 1998).…”

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Chinese Activism of a Different Kind

Gao¹

2013

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Cover illustration: "Doorways: Looking through open doors in the Forbidden City, beijing"; iStockphoto File no. 4015808; Contributor: Paul merrett.This publication has been typeset in the multilingual "brill" typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, iPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface.iSSn

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Keeping Democracy Safe from the Masses: Intellectuals and Elitism in the Chinese Protest Movement

Cited by 27 publications

References 5 publications

Why There Has Been No Anti-Regime Movement on College Campus in China for Three Decades? A Survey Study at Thirty-Five Universities (2015–2018) and Its Implications

Why There Has Been No Anti-Regime Movement on College Campus in China for Three Decades? A Survey Study at Thirty-Five Universities (2015–2018) and Its Implications

A cyberconflict analysis of Chinese dissidents focusing on civil society, mass incidents and labour resistance

Chinese Activism of a Different Kind

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