Becoming Activists in Global China : Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora

成為全球中國的活動是對法輪功及其對中國國家抵抗的第一個純粹的社會學研究。關於中國抗議活動的文獻對1989年的民主運動進行了深入研究，儘管法輪功更加持久，而很大程度上忽略了法輪功的反對。這項比較研究解釋了為什麼法輪功抗議活動在海外流傳，而民主運動卻沒有。

《成為全球中國的積極分子》通過多種方法解釋了法輪功的宗教信仰根基和自願奉獻精神如何為其動員政治提供了基礎。同時，散居在外的民主活動家採取的做法有效地阻止了基層的參與。該研究還表明，消除法輪功的政策目標幫助塑造了當今以安全為重點的中國國家。對法輪功長達二十年的抗議活動解釋了被壓制的中國當代歷史，並增進我們對宗教和政治運動如何相交的認識。

Becoming Activists in Global China is the first purely sociological study of the religious movement Falun Gong and its resistance to the Chinese state. The literature on Chinese protest has intensively studied the 1989 democracy movement while largely ignoring opposition by Falun Gong, even though the latter has been more enduring. This comparative study explains why the Falun Gong protest took off in diaspora and the democracy movement did not. Using multiple methods, Becoming Activists in Global China explains how Falun Gong's roots in proselytizing and its ethic of volunteerism provided the launch pad for its political mobilization. Simultaneously, diaspora democracy activists adopted practices that effectively discouraged grassroots participation. The study also shows how the policy goal of eliminating Falun Gong helped shape today's security-focused Chinese state. Explaining Falun Gong's two decades of protest illuminates a suppressed piece of Chinese contemporary history and advances our knowledge of how religious and political movements intersect.

Andrew Junker  (Author) 

Publisher:Cambridge University Press 

ISBN:   978-1108482998