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Grassroots Activism of Ancient China

Author : Hung-yok Ip
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793622353
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Activism of Ancient China written by Hung-yok Ip and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Mohism as a movement in early China, focusing on the Mohists’ pursuit of power. Fashioning themselves as grassroots activists, the Mohists hoped to impact the elite by gaining entry in its community and influencing it from within. To create a less violent world, they deployed strategies of persuasion and negotiation but did not discard counterviolence in their dealings with the ruling class. In executing their activism, the Mohists produced knowledge that allowed them to hone their nonviolent strategies as well as to mount armed resistance to aggression. In addition, the Mohists paid significant attention to the issue of personhood, constructing a self-cultivation tradition unsparing in its demands for overcoming human conditions that would impede their performance as activists. This book situates Mohism in the history of nonviolent activism, and in that of negotiation and conflict resolution.

Social Movements in China and Hong Kong

Author : Khun Eng Kuah
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089641319
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Social Movements in China and Hong Kong written by Khun Eng Kuah and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Het uitgangspunt van dit boek is dat Chinese individuen van hun eigen inzet uit moeten kunnen gaan, ongeacht de beperkingen die hen door de staat worden opgelegd. Om hun belangen beter te kunnen verdedigen sluiten sommige individuen zich aan bij sociale bewegingen, die tot sociale protesten kunnen leiden.

Minjian

Author : Sebastian Veg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Minjian written by Sebastian Veg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people. In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.

The Other Digital China

Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674243676
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Other Digital China written by Jing Wang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies. The Chinese government has increased digital censorship under Xi Jinping. Why? Because online activism works; it is perceived as a threat in halls of power. In The Other Digital China, Jing Wang, a scholar at MIT and an activist in China, shatters the view that citizens of nonliberal societies are either brainwashed or complicit, either imprisoned for speaking out or paralyzed by fear. Instead, Wang shows the impact of a less confrontational kind of activism. Whereas Westerners tend to equate action with open criticism and street revolutions, Chinese activists are building an invisible and quiet coalition to bring incremental progress to their society. Many Chinese change makers practice nonconfrontational activism. They prefer to walk around obstacles rather than break through them, tactfully navigating between what is lawful and what is illegitimate. The Other Digital China describes this massive gray zone where NGOs, digital entrepreneurs, university students, IT companies like Tencent and Sina, and tech communities operate. They study the policy winds in Beijing, devising ways to press their case without antagonizing a regime where taboo terms fluctuate at different moments. What emerges is an ever-expanding networked activism on a grand scale. Under extreme ideological constraints, the majority of Chinese activists opt for neither revolution nor inertia. They share a mentality common in China: rules are meant to be bent, if not resisted.

DV-Made China

Author : Zhen Zhang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824846818
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book DV-Made China written by Zhen Zhang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-05-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to both observe and contribute to the social changes then underway. Happening upon the crucial platform of an older independent film movement, this digital turn has given us a "DV China" that includes film and media communities across different social strata and disenfranchised groups, including ethnic and religious minorities and LGBTQ communities. DV-Made China takes stock of these phenomena by surveying the social and cultural landscape of grassroots and alternative cinema practices after the digital turn around the beginning of the new century. The volume shows how Chinese independent, amateur, and activist filmmakers energize the tension between old and new media, performance and representation, fiction and non-fiction, art and politics, China and the world. Essays by scholars in cinema and media studies, anthropology, history, Asian and Tibetan studies bring innovative interdisciplinary methodologies to critically expand upon existing scholarship on contemporary Chinese independent documentary. Their inquiries then extend to narrative feature, activist video, animation, and other digital hybrids. At every turn, the book confronts digital ironies: On the one hand, its portability facilitates forms of radically private film production and audience habits of small-screen consumption. Yet it also simultaneously links up makers and consumers, curators and censors allowing for speedier circulation, more discussion, and quicker formations of public political and aesthetic discourses. DV-Made China introduces new frameworks in a Chinese setting that range from aesthetics to ethical activism, from digital shooting and editing techniques to the politics of film circulation in festivals and online. Politics, the authors urge, travels along paths of aesthetic excitement, and aesthetic choices, conversely, always bear ethical consequences. The films, their makers, their audiences and their distributional pathways all harbor implications for social change that are closely intertwined with the fate of media culture in the new century of a world that both contains and is influenced by China.

Greening Democracy

Author : Stephen Milder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108228690
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Greening Democracy written by Stephen Milder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors became the basis for a widespread anti-nuclear movement only after government officials' unrelenting support for nuclear energy caused reactor opponents to become concerned about the state of their democracy. Surprisingly, many citizens thought transnationally, looking abroad for protest strategies, cooperating with activists in other countries, and conceiving of 'Europe' as a potential means of circumventing recalcitrant officials. At this nexus between local action and global thinking, anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding their conception of democracy well beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.

Environmental Activism in China

Author : Lei Xie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415478693
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Activism in China written by Lei Xie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on extensive original research, adopts a multi-disciplinary research approach to examine environmental activism in China, focusing on four cities. It analyses the nature, characteristics, strategies, organizational modes and influence of what could be labeled a Chinese environmental movement in-the-making.

Environmental Activism in China

Author : Lei Xie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134020260
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Activism in China written by Lei Xie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major environmental degradation is a serious problem for China as the country's economy continues to grow at a phenomenal pace. In recent years environmental organisations have begun to emerge in China, and in some cases have had remarkable success in affecting policies which would have had significant adverse impacts on the environment. This book, based on extensive original research, adopts a multi-disciplinary research approach to examine environmental activism in China, focusing on four cities. It analyses the nature, characteristics, strategies, organizational modes and influence of what could be labeled a Chinese environmental movement in-the-making. In particular, this volume highlights the specificities of Chinese environmental activism in an increasingly globalizing world, along with a comparison to the environmental movement in Western Europe and North America.

Mobilizing Without the Masses

Author : Diana Fu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420540
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing Without the Masses written by Diana Fu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do weak activists organize under repression? This book theorizes a dynamic of contention called mobilizing without the masses.

The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

Author : Yiching Wu Wu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674419863
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution at the Margins written by Yiching Wu Wu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural Revolution began from above, yet it was students and workers at the grassroots who advanced the movement's radical possibilities by acting and thinking for themselves. Resolving to suppress the resulting crisis, Mao set events in motion in 1968 that left out in the cold those rebels who had taken it most seriously, Yiching Wu shows.

Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China

Author : Sara Davis
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China written by Sara Davis and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study: The closure of Orchid Orphanage -- Introduction. Methodology. -- Continuing crackdown in Henan Province. Detention and harassment of Henan AIDS activists -- The mistreatment of activists helping AIDS orphans. -- Harassment of activists workng with persons at hight risk of HIV transmission. Activists working with injection drug users and sex workers -- Restrictions on AIDS information for men who have sex with men -- Internet censorship. -- Institutional barriers to AIDS organizations. NGO registration and management laws -- Registering as a commercial enterprise -- Bureaucratic harassment -- Obligations under international law. -- Conclusion. -- Recommendations. To the government of the People's Republic of China: on civil society, on HIV/AIDS policy -- To the Henan provincial government and other local authorities in China -- To the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international donors to HIV/AIDS programs in China -- To U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights -- To the U.N. Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS and other U.N. agencies with AIDS programs in China -- To international partners in bilateral rights dialogues with China -- Acknowledgements.

Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China

Author : Elizabeth Brunner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793606137
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China written by Elizabeth Brunner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth study on the use of social media in environmental activism in China. The author weaves together post-structuralist theory, media theory, social movement theory, and environmental communication studies to analyze concepts such as wild public networks and force majeure in the context of contemporary social movements.

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism

Author : Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691136246
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism written by Donald T. Critchlow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on access to Schlafly's papers and sixty other archival collections, offers a look at the private life and public convictions of the arch-conservative and determined opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment, gay rights, and reproductive freedom.

Chinese Environmental Ethics

Author : Mayfair Yang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538156490
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Environmental Ethics written by Mayfair Yang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, this volume brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious practice to explore how traditional Chinese religio-environmental ethics are actually put into social practice both in China’s past and present. It also examines how Chinese religious teachings offer a wealth of resources to the environmental project of forging new ontologies for humans co-existing with other living beings. Different chapters examine how: Buddhist ontology avoids anthropocentrism, fengshui (Chinese geomancy) can help protect the landscape from economic development, popular religion organizes tree-planting, ancient dream interpretation practices avoided constructing the possessive individual subjectivity of modern consumerism, Buddhist rituals and ethics promoted compassion for animals and modern recycling, Confucian ancestor rituals and tombs have deterred industrial expansion, and also how Daoism’s potential role to deter desertification in northern China was stymied by state operations in contemporary China. A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.

Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven

Author : Ming-sho Ho
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439917078
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven written by Ming-sho Ho and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the dynamics of two recent nonviolent, student-led protests in light of China's growth and power

Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China

Author : Teresa Wright
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786433788
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China written by Teresa Wright and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring contributions from top scholars and emerging stars in the field, the Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China captures the complexity of protest and dissent in contemporary China, while simultaneously exploring a number of unifying themes. Examining how, when, and why individuals and groups have engaged in contentious acts, and how the targets of their complaints have responded, the volume sheds light on the stability of China’s existing political system, and its likely future trajectory.

Japan's Living Politics

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108804993
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Japan's Living Politics written by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.