Climbing the Dispute Pagoda: Grievances and Appeals to the Official Justice System in Rural China
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discontent in the Chinese countryside have proliferated in recent years.1 This burgeoning and poignant literature chronicles conflict— particularly conflict between villagers and local state agencies—and identifies popular strategies of contention, resistance, and redress. Using data collected in 2002 from the first survey of its kind on grievances and dispute-processing in rural China, I build on this literature, not only by establishing baseline descriptive information about grievances and popular efforts at their resolution in a rapidly transforming context, but also, and more importantly, by explaining variation both in the popular experience of grievances and in the popular pursuit of legal remedies. I attempt to address two sets of “frequency and variation” questions: the overall Climbing the Dispute Pagoda: Grievances and Appeals to the Official Justice System in Rural China
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