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from Part III - Benefits and Risks
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This chapter, the result of extensive fieldwork primarily focusing on Shanghai and Wuhan, where the most significant lockdowns occurred, uncovers the unexamined role of Chinese homeowners and their associations in monitoring and resisting the party-state’s encroachments on individual rights during the COVID pandemic, a phenomenon I term “cooperating to resist.” This chapter demonstrates that the cooperation of Chinese homeowners, which was indispensable to the party-state’s ability to maintain its pandemic control measures, brought them the power to mobilize, resist, and contribute to an abrupt ending of China’s lockdown policy which the party-state’s top leadership had attached its legitimacy to.
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