Taru Salmenkari

Civil Society in China and Taiwan

Agency, Class and Boundaries

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses thorough empirical research to expand the narrow understanding of civil society used in Chinese studies. Based on ethnographic research undertaken among activists in China and Taiwan, it examines issues such as inequalities within civil societies and technologies to maintain the boundary between the state and the society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781138943186
• ISBN-10: 1138943185
• Artikelnr.: 43674285

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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