China's Embedded Activism

Richard Louis Edmonds is Visiting Professor in the Geographical Studies Program and Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago.Peter Ho is Professor in International Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), University of Groningen

• 1. Introduction: Embedded Activism and Political Change in a Semi-Authoritarian Context Peter Ho 2. Self-Imposed Censorship and De-Politicized Politics in China: Green Activism or a Color Revolution? Peter Ho 3. Corporatist Control of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations: A State Perspective Ru Jiang and Leonard Ortolano 4. "Of Seven Mouths and Eight Tongues": Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a Green Public Sphere Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang 5. Political Ecology of Popular Protest in Mid-Qing China: Changes and Continuities with Contemporary Resistance Ho-fung Hung 6. Grassland Campaigns during the Collective Era: Socialist Politics and Local Strategies in Uxin Ju Hong Jiang 7. Channeling Dissent: The Institutionalization of Environmental Complaint Resolution Anna Brettell 8. Benefits and Costs of Shanghai’s Environmental Citizen Complaints System Mara Warwick and Leonard Ortolano 9. Not Against the State, Just Protecting Residents’ Interests: An Urban Movement in a Shanghai Neighborhood Jiangang Zhu and Peter Ho 10. An Alliance between State and Society?: Environmental Activism in Shanghai Seungho Lee 11. Caged by Boundaries?: NGO Cooperation at the Sino-Russian Border Yanfei Sun and Maria Tysiachniouk 12. Transnational Advocacy at the Grassroots: Benefits and Risks of International Cooperation Katherine Morton 13. Perspectives of Time and Change: Rethinking Embedded Green Activism in China Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds

'China's Embedded Activism is another important effort in making sense of the changes that are taking place in China' - Zhengxu Wang. The China Quarterly, 196, December 2008