State of exchange : migrant NGOs and the Chinese government / Jennifer Y.J. Hsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsu, Jennifer Y. J, author.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations--China.

Non-governmental organizations.

Civil society--China.

Civil society.

Politics and government.

Migrant labor.

China.

Migrant labor--China.

China--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 207 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Migrant NGOs and the Chinese government

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]

Summary:

"China's rapid socio-economic transformation has generated extraordinary movements of people from rural areas to urban centres. At the peak of labour migration in the early 2000s, some 100 to 200 million people moved to cities in search of higher wages and better standards of living. State of Exchange examines how--despite the authoritarian nature of the Chinese state--non-governmental organizations in China have increased dramatically as central and local states tacitly allow migrant NGOs to deliver community services to workers in Beijing and Shanghai. Interacting with spaces and layers of the state at various levels of government, NGOs conduct and scale up their programs, while the state, in turn, engages with NGOs as a means to remain relevant and further legitimize its own interests. Jennifer Hsu uses a new conceptual framework to assess state-NGO relations and ultimately to reveal how NGOs navigate the complex web of central and local government bodies to lend stability to, and form mutually beneficial relationships with, the Chinese state. As North Africa and the Middle East move into a new era of politics, the Chinese experience outlined in this book will serve as a blueprint for better understanding the best practices and lessons learned for state-society relationships at the central and local levels."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Moving towards a spatial framework

Understanding non-governmental organizations in China

Symbolic cooperation

Asymmetric cooperation

Strategic cooperation

Foray into spaces new and old.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.

Other Format:

Hsu, Jennifer Y. J, author. State of exchange.

ISBN:

9780774833646

0774833645

OCLC:

960096943