1. Introduction 2. The Development of the Term weiquan 3. Government Rights Defence 4. Citizen-Initiated Rights Defence 5. Legal Rights Defence 6. Conclusion: Why weiquan?
Biography
Jonathan Benney is a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute.
"This engaging book provides essential information and analysis on the emergence and implications of the phenomenon of rights defenders... Jonathan Benney’s useful book provides an excellent treatment of the emergence of the rights defence movement and so invites better understanding of the development of China’s socialist legal system generally. This valuable book will be useful reading for specialists on China’s legal and political systems, as well as for graduate students and others with reasonably advanced levels of knowledge on contemporary China." - Pitman B. Potter, University of British Columbia, Canada; China Information, 2013.
"This excellent book is highly recommended to all interested in legal development and legal issues in China, in social movement development, state–society interaction and civil society development, China’s political culture, and political, social and institutional change. It provides valuable insights into the informal role of legal development and the re-interpretation of the role of rights beyond the intentions of the Party-state." - Thomas Heberer, Institute of East Asian Studies, University Duisburg-Essen, The China Journal
