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Symbolic strategies and political empowerment: Collective action in Tiananmen Square.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Symbolic strategies and political empowerment: Collective action in Tiananmen Square./
Author:	Zhao, Jun.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1996,
Description:	317 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International58-03A.
Subject:	Social structure. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9633345
ISBN:	9798691278365

Symbolic strategies and political empowerment: Collective action in Tiananmen Square.
Zhao, Jun.

Symbolic strategies and political empowerment: Collective action in Tiananmen Square. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1996 - 317 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 58-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1996.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation analyzes how politically disadvantaged collective actors in 1989 Chinese student movement mobilized cultural resources in their struggle against powerful authorities. It demonstrates the process in which such resources were used to construct a movement discourse and to organize actions and the ways in which they became translated into human and material resources for collective empowerment. The data for analysis are drawn from interviews with movement participants, a rich variety of movement documents, individual memoirs, and journalistic reports in print and electronic forms. The major questions considered include: how did the movement participants form their collective action? What collective strategies were adopted to overcome the institutional constraints on their action? What kind of symbolic resources were generated, and, how were they used to motivate people and organize actions? What dynamics and logics underlay their protests? What structural and cultural conditions shaped the repertoire of the movement's actions? How did the movement's symbolic practices influence the course of the events and the outcome of the conflict? These questions are considered under the rubrics of two major dimensions of the collective action in Tiananmen Square, namely, the symbolic environments and the symbolic modes of struggle. The former focuses on the process in which people collectively constructed the meanings of the symbolic conditions involving time, space, and events that facilitated the movement mobilization. It also demonstrates how successful control over such environments helped empower the powerless. The latter illustrates the distinctive modes of action adopted by the Chinese protesters--such as multivocal transcripts, cultural reappropriation, and moral theater--through a critique of some Western scholars' misunderstanding of the protesters' actions and a consideration of the macro political, historical, and cultural conditions that gave rise to these modes of struggle as well the micro dynamics of concrete interactions in specific situations. The dissertation aims to present fresh interpretations of the movement by carefully examining the empirical materials through the lenses of the theories of social movements and the sociology of culture, and through this analysis contribute to the enrichment of these theories.

ISBN: 9798691278365Subjects--Topical Terms:

528995
Social structure.
Subjects--Index Terms:

China

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