Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces

Contested Spaces

Jonathan Unger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780765613264
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317476320
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Labour Economics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

What role do Chinese popular associations play in the expansion of civil society and democratization? Under Mao few associations were permitted to exist, while today over 200,000 associations are officially recognized. Are they important foundations of civil society, or vehicles for state corporatism and control? In this book leading China specialists examine an interesting range of associations, from business associations to trade unions, to urban homeowners associations, women's groups against domestic violence, and rural NGOs that develop anti-poverty programs. The contributors find different important trends underway in different parts of China's economy and society. Their findings are nuanced, insightful - and often not what might be expected.

Index

ACFIC. See All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce

ACFTU. See All-China Federation of Trade Unions

Advertising Association, Yantai, 101, 108, 110

advocacy groups, 12

agencies. See government agencies

Aging Commissions, 34

All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce (ACFIC), 31, 60, 63

local associations and, 117

membership of, 153

All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), 1, 71–72

bureaucracy of, 77

economic reforms/workers and, 74–81

legal status/power of, 80

Party-state and, 78

post-Tiananmen protests, 76

private sector branches, 79

reorganization of, 75

in state sector enterprises, 77

SWRC and, 81

All-China Women’s Federation, 1, 21–22, 28, 33, 177

branches of, 22, 61, 63

dual leadership system and, 61

All-China Youth Federation, 24

Anti-Domestic Violence Network, 178–179, 189, 194–196

Asian Development Bank, 28, 45

association ecologies, 15, 47

Association of Enterprises with Taiwanese Investors, Yantai, 102, 108

associations. See also specific ones

autonomy of, 86, 115–116, 153

career path and, 45

Chinese vs. foreign models, 15

competition and, 107

constraints on, 42–46

contested space of, 46

development promotion and, 108–111

expansion of, 46

foreign money/contacts and, 11

funding of, 111–112

government agencies and, 91–95, 103–105, 110–114, 162–164

government subsidy of, 57

governmental bureaucracies and, 54

government/Party sponsorship of, 99

institutional capacity within, 43–44

as intermediaries, 120

legal status of, 100

legislative/regul...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributor
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction Chinese Associations, Civil Society, and State Corporatism: Disputed Terrain
• One Civil Society in a Transitional State: The Rise of Associations in China
• Two Associations in a Bind: The Emergence of Political Corporatism
• Three China’s Trade Unions in Corporatist Transition
• Four Embedded within State Agencies: Business Associations in Yantai
• Five The Strange Marriage between the State and Private Business in Beijing
• Six The Price of Competition: The Failed Government Effort to Use Associations to Organize China’s Market Economy
• Seven Airing Dirty Laundry in Public: Anti-Domestic Violence Activism in Beijing
• Eight Civil Society and the Anatomy of a Rural NGO
• Nine Democratizing the Neighborhood? New Private Housing and Home-Owner Self-Organization in Urban China
• Bibliography
• Index