Resistance Under Communist China : Religious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists / by Ray Wang.
Wang, Ray (Political scientist), author.
2019
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Title Resistance Under Communist China : Religious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists / by Ray Wang.
Author Wang, Ray (Political scientist), author.
ISBN 9783030141486
3030141489
9783030141479 (print)
3030141470
9783030141493 (print)
3030141497
9783030141509 (print)
3030141500
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14148-6
Publication Details Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIX, 235 pages 9 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-14148-6 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.95
Summary This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism. The author focuses on mechanisms used by three kinds of actors: protesters, advocates and opportunists, and uses regional, inter-faith, and international comparisons to understand why some foreign advocates can enter China and engage in illegal aid and missions to empower local activists, while the same groups cannot conduct the same activities in another geographically, economically and politically similar location. The stories in this book demonstrate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach of transnational activism; they challenge the conventional spiral theory paradigm of human rights literature and the narrow views about GONGOs in civil society literature. This new knowledge helps to sustain a more optimistic view and offers an alternative way of promoting human rights in China and countries with similar authoritarian environments. Ray Wang is Associate Professor at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His major research interests focus on human rights, religious freedom and transnational advocacy networks, and he is the recipient of an Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2018-2021).
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Series Human rights interventions.
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Print version: 9783030141509
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1. Introduction
2. Facilitating Activism in a Strong Authoritarian State
3. China's Religious Affairs Policy
4. United Front Work and Religious Affairs Institutions
5. A Tale of Four Cities: Transnational Christian Activism in the Heartland
6. Buddha vs. Jesus: The Transnationalism of Traditional Religions
7. Go Beyond Religion and China
8. Conclusion.

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