Outsourcing Repression
Ong, Lynette H.![Outsourcing Repression](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/384/38456029/CHSBZCOP0338456029.jpg)
In Outsourcing Repression, Lynette H. Ong tells the story of how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors-from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers. Drawing from a decade of ethnographic research from 2011 to 2019, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government regulations, Ong shows how the state uses these nonstate actors to coerce and mobilize the masses, while reducing resistance. Theorizing a cou...