Taru Salmenkari, Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland

‘Salmenkari correctly notes that terms such as civil society and NGO are all imports to China and investigates the situational, strategic, and cultural variance in Chinese self-organizing. This book offers a unique perspective on the development and meaning of civil society in China, and is an important resource for tracing the academic study and local practices of these groups.’

• Contents1 Globalization and civil society promotion: the theoretical toolkit 2 The will to make China global: Chinese NGO responses to civil society promotion 3 Social omissions on Chinese environmental NGO agendas: knowledge production that silences 4 Confucian ties in global translations: introducing NGO advocacy to China 5 Ways of being and not being political: gay self-organizing in Shanghai 6 Minjian: self-organizing among the people 7 Conclusions: reconfiguring Chinese society, not the state Bibliography Index

Taru Salmenkari, Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland

‘Salmenkari correctly notes that terms such as civil society and NGO are all imports to China and investigates the situational, strategic, and cultural variance in Chinese self-organizing. This book offers a unique perspective on the development and meaning of civil society in China, and is an important resource for tracing the academic study and local practices of these groups.’

• Contents1 Globalization and civil society promotion: the theoretical toolkit 2 The will to make China global: Chinese NGO responses to civil society promotion 3 Social omissions on Chinese environmental NGO agendas: knowledge production that silences 4 Confucian ties in global translations: introducing NGO advocacy to China 5 Ways of being and not being political: gay self-organizing in Shanghai 6 Minjian: self-organizing among the people 7 Conclusions: reconfiguring Chinese society, not the state Bibliography Index