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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Explaining Authoritarian Containment | 26 |
2 Informal Protestantism in China and Local Government Toleration | 45 |
3 Why Public Security Bureaus Contain Protestant House Churches | 68 |
4 Everyday Forms of Containment | 86 |
5 Containment and Authoritarian Regime Resilience | 102 |
6 Containment across Authoritarian Landscapes | 114 |
Conclusion | 134 |
The Demolition of Protestant Churches and Crosses in Zhejiang from 2013 to 2015 | 145 |
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