1. Introduction _ ; 2. Preparing for the Crackdown ; 3. Law Enforcement Operations after the Crackown ; 4. The Anti-Falungong News Media Campaign ; 5. Curing the Patient - Conversion Programs ; 6. Organization Structure of the Campaign ; 7. Party Meetings Announcing the Ban ; 8. Evaluation of the Anti-Falungong Campaign ; 9. Concluding Remarks
James Tong is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at UCLA.
China has certainly risen, but will it be free? This is the
provocative question at the hub of James Tong's book. While many
theories predict that modernization will weaken the state's power
to monitor and punish deviance, thereby permitting pluralism to
emerge, Tong subjects these assumptions to a systematic empirical
test. In a comparative analysis of the 1999 campaign to eradicate
Falungong, the quasi-religious exercise association, he finds the
Chinese Party-state still to be suffocatingly powerful-though
perhaps less so than before.
*Lowell Dittmer, University of California at Berkeley*
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