ABSTRACT
In the weeks and months which followed the series of uprisings which came to be known as the Arab Spring the attention of news media and some political analysts shifted to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Discussions of the overthrow of one collection of authoritarian regimes quickly developed to include the Chinese case. Following the seismic events in Tunisia and Egypt calls appeared online for protests to be organized nationwide in the PRC. Almost as quickly as these calls for protest appeared they were snuffed out by a significant mobilization of Chinese state security resources. The Jasmine Revolution in China died before it had really begun.
