The death and life of Chinese civil society / Mujun Zhou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhou, Mujun.

Series:

China understandings today.

China Understandings Today

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society--China.

Civil society.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

China.

China--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society examines how a group of Chinese intellectual elites referred to as the liberals or ziyou pai edified the civil society project beginning in the 1990s to build an independent space to constrain state power, increase political participation, and promote China's democratization.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Interstitial Emergence of Civil Society as an Ideational Movement

Chapter 1. The Gradual Revival of Public Life, 1992-2002

Chapter 2. The Expansion of the Interstitial Publics, 2003-2007

Chapter 3. The Hasty Formation of a Counter-Hegemonic Movement, 2003-2007

Part Two: The Contradicting Institutionalization of Civil Society as an Ideational Movement

Chapter 4. The Structural Transformation of Interstitial Publics, 2008-2013

Chapter 5. The Increasing Contestation over the Project of Building Civil Society, 2008-2013

Chapter 6. The Fragmentation of Public Discussion, 2014-2019

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-90546-5

9780472905461

OCLC:

1527187691