Description: Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.
Brief description: Shih-Diing Liu is Professor of Communication at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China.
Review Quotes:
"Shih-Diing Liu's new book, The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China, is a monograph finished with courage and ambition ... It is also one among very few bold attempts to examine, together, the contentious politics of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. The elegance with which Liu weaves these stories and the case details he presents are good reasons to include his volume in both area studies and theoretical reading lists." -- Pacific Affairs
"The Politics of People is a direct challenge to the Sinological straightjacket of thinking about political action, resistance, and Occupy movements. It is also a thoroughgoing critique of how postcolonial studies has not pushed us very far in our thinking about popular politics, and how the rich literature on the Occupy movement in the United States and European context has failed to think recent protests and political action movements into the global theorization of Occupy." -- Ralph Litzinger, coeditor of Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China