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This research index collects scholarly books, institutional studies, and other secondary sources that refer to the Free China Movement (FCM) or to historically related “Free China” organizations. Inclusion records the existence and context of a reference; it does not automatically endorse every claim made by the source.
Verified bibliographic records
Patricia M. Thornton — “Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China” (2008)
Source: Patricia M. Thornton, “Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China,” in Popular Protest in China (Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. 179–204. JSTOR record.
FCM relevance: The chapter names the Free China Movement among overseas Chinese dissident organizations in a discussion of transnational Chinese political activism.
Chetan Kumar — “Transnational Networks and Campaigns for Democracy” (2000)
Source: Chetan Kumar, “Transnational Networks and Campaigns for Democracy,” in The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000), pp. 115–142. JSTOR record.
FCM relevance: The chapter attributes to FCM a campaign that persuaded Adidas to abandon manufacture of soccer balls in China because of forced-labor allegations; the precise causal chain remains subject to source-by-source verification.
Michael Chase and James Mulvenon — “Political Use of the Internet in China” (2002)
Source: Michael Chase and James Mulvenon, “Political Use of the Internet in China,” in You’ve Got Dissent! Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijing’s Counter-Strategies (RAND Corporation, 2002), pp. 1–44. JSTOR record.
FCM relevance: RAND’s study includes a Free China Movement reference in its analysis of Chinese dissident Internet activity.
Earlier post-1949 “Free China” movements
Earlier organizations using “Free China” terminology are preserved in a separate historical section rather than discarded as false positives. They are treated as part of the broader post-1949 trajectory of efforts directed toward political change in mainland China, while remaining institutionally distinct from the 1998 FCM.
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Jerome Alan Cohen and Hungdah Chiu — “Crimes Committed in Chinese Territory” (1974)
Source: Jerome Alan Cohen and Hungdah Chiu, “Crimes Committed in Chinese Territory,” in People’s China and International Law, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press, 1974), pp. 605–660. JSTOR record.
Historical treatment: This reference belongs to the earlier Cold War-era “Free China” record. It is relevant to the longer trajectory but must not be merged into the founding chronology, membership, campaigns, or publications of the 1998 FCM.
Research use
Future additions should preserve full bibliographic metadata, distinguish primary from secondary evidence, identify organizational period and leadership, and explicitly document any claimed continuity rather than infer it from a shared name or objective.