%0 Journal Article
%T Anti
%A Jingkai He
%A Zhenhua Su
%J Journal of Asian and African Studies
%@ 1745-2538
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0021909616687598
%X This paper proposes a new framework to analyze social contentions in China from the perspectives of contention motives and mobilization channels, explains why traditional forms of contention do not undermine the Chinese Communist Party¡¯s (CCP) rule, and identifies anti-system contention as a distinctive form of contention that poses the greatest challenge to the CCP¡¯s rule. Through analysis of political opportunity structures and mobilization mechanisms that allowed anti-system contentions to rise, this paper argues that since such contentions mainly consist of value-oriented social actors mobilized via informal channels, it would require the Chinese regime to adapt to a more targeted and coordinated model of repression to address the new challenges. The paper further provides empirical case studies to show the effectiveness of the regime¡¯s adaptive repression and shows that anti-system contentions in China face their own hurdle to develop into more prominent contentions
%K Anti-system contentions
%K Netizen Movements
%K political entrepreneur
%K authoritarian response
%K China
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021909616687598