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Chinas Embedded Activism: Opportunities and Constraints of a Social Movement
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Chinas Embedded Activism

China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the streets may be attractive, it is simultaneously misleading as it disregards the nature of political change taking place in China today: a gradual shift towards a polity adapted to a pluralist society. At the same time, one may wonder what the limited political space implies for the development of a social movement in China. This book explores this question by focusing on one of the most active areas of Chinese civil society: the environment.

Chinas Embedded Activism argues that Chinas semi-authoritarian limitations on the freedom of association and speech, coupled with increased social spaces for civic action, have created a milieu in which social activism occurs in an embedded fashion. The semi-authoritarian atmosphere is restrictive of, but paradoxically also conducive to, nationwide collective action with less risk of social instability and repression at the hand of the governing elite.

Rich in case studies about green activism and environmental civic organizations in China, and written by a team of international experts on social movements, NGOs, democratization, and civil society, this book addresses a wide readership of students, scholars and professionals interested in development, geography and environment, political change, and contemporary Chinese society.

Peter Ho is Professor in International Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), University of Groningen. Richard Louis Edmonds is Visiting Professor in the Geographical Studies Program and Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago.

Routledge studies on China in transition

Series Editor: David S.G. Goodman

The Democratisation of China
Baogang He
Beyond Beijing
Dali Yang
Chinas Enterprise Reform
Changing state/society relations after Mao
You Ji
Industrial Change in China
Economic restructuring and conflicting interests
Kate Hannan
The Entrepreneurial State inChina
Real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin
Jane Duckett
Tourism and Modernity in China
Tim Oakes
Cities in Post Mao China
Recipes for economic development in the reform era
Jae Ho Chung
Chinas Spatial Economic Development
Regional transformation in the Lower Yangzi Delta
Andrew M. Marton
Regional Development in China
States, globalization and inequality
Yehua Dennis Wei
Grassroots Charisma
Four local leaders in China
Stephan Feuchtwang and Wang Mingming
The Chinese Legal System
Globalization and local legal culture
Pitman B. Potter
Transforming Rural China
How local institutions shape property rights in China
Chi-Jou Jay Chen
Negotiating Ethnicity in China
Citizenship as a response to the state
Chih-yu Shih
Manager Empowerment in China
Political implications on rural industrialisation in the reform era
Ray Yep
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China
The search for national identity under reform
Yingjie Guo
Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China
Xiaowei Zang
Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
Edward Gu and Merle Goldman
China, Sex and Prostitution
Elaine Jeffreys
The Development of Chinas Stockmarket, 19842002
Equity politics and market institutions
Stephen Green
Chinas Rational Entrepreneurs
The development of the new private business sector
Barbara Krug
Chinas Scientific Elite
Cong Cao
Locating China
Jing Wang
State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China
The silence and collective action of the retrenched
Yongshun Cai
Translocal China
Linkages, identities and the reimagining of space
Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein
International Aid and Chinas Environment
Taming the yellow dragon
Katherine Morton
Sex and Sexuality in China
Edited by Elaine Jeffreys
Chinas Reforms and International Political Economy
Edited by David Zweig and Chen Zhimin
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
A comparative study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
Xiaowei Zang
Chinas Urban Space
Development under market socialism
T.G. McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Y.L. Wang, Andrew M. Marton and Jiaping Wu
Chinas Embedded Activism
Opportunities and constraints of a social movement
Edited by Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds

First published 2008
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2008 Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds

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ISBN 0-203-94644-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-43374-6 (hbk)
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For Chinas green activists

There was once a man of Song who tilled his field. In the midst of his field stood the stem of a tree, and one day a hare in full course rushed against that stem, broke its neck and died. Thereupon the man left his plough and stood waiting at that tree in the hope that he would catch another hare. But he never caught another hare and was ridiculed by the people of Song. If, however, you wish to rule the people of today with the methods of government of the early kings, you do exactly the same thing as that man who waited by his tree.... Therefore affairs go according to their time, and preparations are made in accordance with affairs.

Han Feizi (233 BC)

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Anna Brettell has taught at Cornell University and the University of Vermont and is currently a Research Associate at the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda at the University of Maryland and a Program Officer at the National Endowment for Democracy. Her interests are Chinese and East Asian politics, international environmental politics and law, and comparative politics. She has published articles and chapters regarding the relationships among economic development, levels of pollution, and public participation in China; Chinese environmental groups; environmental justice and Chinas complaint and dispute resolution systems; and environmental cooperation in East Asia.

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