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"How Would the Chinese Government Respond to Another Tiananmen-style Protest?"
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UC San Diego Campus, IR/PS, Room 1201 Next to Thurgood Marshall Lane La Jolla, CA
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"How Would the Chinese Government Respond to Another Tiananmen-style Protest?"
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Time: 5:00 - 6:30pm
Location: UC San Diego Campus, IR/PS, Room 1201*
Open to: Public
Speaker: Yang Su, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Is a large-scale protest possible in China? How might the government react if one does take place today?
Yang Su teaches and writes about social movements and protests. He authored the book "Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution" (Cambridge, 2011), which won the 2012 Barrington Moore Award for the best book in the area of comparative and historical sociology presented by the American Sociological Association.
Special thanks to Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China for co-hosting this event.
*Please note venue change.