Civil Society in China and Taiwan: Agency, Class and Boundaries

ISBN-13: 9781138943186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str.

Taru Salmenkari

Opis

This book will use thorough empirical research to criticize and expand the narrow understanding of civil society used in Chinese studies. Based on ethnographic research undertaken among activists in China and Taiwan, the book examines issues such as inequalities within civil society, mobilizatory skills needed for civil society activities, and technologies to maintain the boundary between the state and the society.

Spis treści

1. On the fragmented nature of civil society: Autonomous spaces, resistance and social mediation 2. Encountering the state in Taiwan: Driving home the state-society boundary 3. Maintaining and manipulating boundaries: How Chinese advocacy NGOs encounter the state 4. Rising against evictions in Taiwan: Rights, property, and collective action 5. Entrepreneurial civil society in Shanghai: When economic independence fails to produce political demands

O autorze

Taru Salmenkari is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia.