1st Edition
China's Opening Society The Non-State Sector and Governance
Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Introduction
Zheng Zheng and Joseph Fewsmith
1. A Critical Review of the NGO Sustainable Development Philosophy
Vanessa Pupavac
2. Whose Civil Society Is It Anyway?
Catherine Götz
3. Non-Governmental Organizations, Non-Formal Education and Civil Society in Contemporary Russia
John Morgan
Grigory A. Kliucharev
4. The Changing Aspects of Civil Society in China
Jean-Philippe Béja
5. NGOs in China: Development Dynamics and Challenges
Lu Yiyi
6. The State, Firms and Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Zheng Yongnian
7. The media, internet and governance in China
Gary D. Rawnsley
8. Dissecting Chinese County Governmental Authorities
Zhong Yang
9. Institutional Barriers to the Development of Civil Society in China
He Zengke
10. Chambers of Commerce in Wenzhou: Toward Civil Society?
Joseph Fewsmith
11. How can deliberative institutions be sustainable in China?
He Baogang
12. Foreign NGOs’ Role in Local Governance in China
Tan Qingshan
13. External Actors in the Process of Village Elections: Foreign NGOs and China
Lang Youxing
Index
Biography
Zheng Yongnian is Professor and Director of Research, China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. He researches on China’s domestic transformation and its external impact. He has written numerous books, including Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China (1999), Globalization and State Transformation in China (2004), Will China Become Democratic? (2004) and Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State and Society in China (2007). He served as consultant to the United Nations Development Programme on China's rural development and democracy.
Joseph Fewsmith is Director of East Asian Studies Program and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author of four books: China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition, Elite Politics in Contemporary China, The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate, and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1980-1930. He is also a research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University.
