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Biao, Teng --- "Rights defense and new citizen's movement" [2019] ELECD 1321; in Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua (eds), "Handbook on Human Rights in China" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 605

Book Title: Handbook on Human Rights in China

Editor(s): Biddulph, Sarah; Rosenzweig, Joshua

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 28

Section Title: Rights defense and new citizen’s movement

Author(s): Biao, Teng

Number of pages: 26

Abstract/Description:

The ‘Rights Defense Movement’ (weiquan yundong) emerged from the early 2000s as a new focus of the Chinese democracy movement. The four trends of the movement—organization, street activism, politicization and internationalization—can be seen as amazing achievements in a repressive regime, but they are also a core reason for the severe government crackdown. The development and the predicament of the Rights Defense Movement illustrates the dilemma of politics, legitimacy and rule of law in post-Mao China.