1st Edition
Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Judging the State in Contemporary China, Susanne Brandtstädter
1. Battles over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emergent Publics in Urban China, Li Zhang
2. Making Personal Life Political: Political Trajectories of Everyday Conversations in China’s Online Communities, Cuiming Pang
3. Marginalizing the law: Corporate social responsibility, worker hotlines and the shifting grounds of rights consciousness in contemporary China, Ellen Hertz and Marylène Lieber
4. Judging publics and contested exclusion: The moral economy of citizenship in China, Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
5. Policy Documents: Imaginations of the State and the Struggle for Justice in a Chinese Land-losing Village, Chi-pui Cheung
6. What Rights Cannot Do: The Making and Unmaking of Public Goods in the Yunnanese Countryside, Andrea Pia
7. Public Buddhist Philosophy: Civic Engagement and Discursive Space among a Religious Group in Shanghai, Weishan Huang
8. Concealing and Revealing Senses of Justice in Rural China, Hans Steinmüller
Afterword, Isabelle Thireau
Biography
Susanne Brandtstädter is Professor and Chair in the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne.
Hans Steinmuller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.
