Jonathan Unger

Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces

Contested Spaces

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Produktbeschreibung

What role do Chinese popular associations play in the expansion of civil society and democratization? This book examines a range of associations, from business associations to trade unions, to urban homeowners associations, women's groups against domestic violence, and rural NGOs that develop anti-poverty programs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780765613264
• ISBN-10: 0765613263
• Artikelnr.: 26370526

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Unger

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Jonathan Unger; Chapter 1 Civil Society in a Transitional
State: The Rise of Associations in China, AndrewWatson; Chapter 2
Associations in a Bind: The Emergence of Political Corporatism, Jonathan
Unger, Anita Chan; Chapter 3 China's Trade Unions in Corporatist
Transition, Anita Chan; Chapter 4 Embedded within State Agencies: Business
Associations in Yantai, Kenneth W. Foster; Chapter 5 The Strange Marriage
between the State and Private Business in Beijing, Jonathan Unger; Chapter
6 The Price of Competition: The Failed Government Effort to Use
Associations to Organize China's Market Economy, Scott Kennedy; Chapter 7
Airing Dirty Laundry in Public: Anti-Domestic Violence Activism in Beijing,
Samantha Keech-Marx; Chapter 8 Civil Society and the Anatomy of a Rural
NGO, Xin Zhang, Richard Baum; Chapter 9 Democratizing the Neighborhood? New
Private Housing and Home-Owner Self-Organization in Urban China, Benjamin
L. Read;