Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China focusing on dramatic forms of bodily spatial strategic and artistic performativity.Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square occupation mainland China Hong Kong and Macau have experienced an increase in and persistence of mass gatherings demonstrations and blockades staged as a means of protesting the ways in which people are. In this book ShihDiing Liu argues that these popular protests are poorly understood because they are viewed through the lens of protests and occupations globally with insufficient attention given to their distinctively local aspects. He provides a better account of these distinctively Chinesestyle occupations by describing contextualizing and analyzing a range of relevant recent case studies.