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South China Protests: Not So Subversive?

The Columbia University Press blog has published a post by Ho-fung Hong, author of the book “Protest with Chinese Characteristics,” who puts the recent protests in Wukan and Haimen in the context of other uprisings in Chinese history to argue that they were not as subversive as many think: The Wukan protest, in particular, resonates with many great uprisings in China’s history such as th