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.

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• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Judging the State in Contemporary China1. Battles over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emergent Publics in Urban China2. Making Personal Life Political: Political Trajectories of Everyday Conversations in China’s Online Communities3. Marginalizing the law: Corporate social responsibility, worker hotlines and the shifting grounds of rights consciousness in contemporary China4. Judging publics and contested exclusion: The moral economy of citizenship in China5. Policy Documents: Imaginations of the State and the Struggle for Justice in a Chinese Land-losing Village6. What Rights Cannot Do: The Making and Unmaking of Public Goods in the Yunnanese Countryside7. Public Buddhist Philosophy: Civic Engagement and Discursive Space among a Religious Group in Shanghai8. Concealing and Revealing Senses of Justice in Rural ChinaAfterword

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.

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• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Judging the State in Contemporary China1. Battles over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emergent Publics in Urban China2. Making Personal Life Political: Political Trajectories of Everyday Conversations in China’s Online Communities3. Marginalizing the law: Corporate social responsibility, worker hotlines and the shifting grounds of rights consciousness in contemporary China4. Judging publics and contested exclusion: The moral economy of citizenship in China5. Policy Documents: Imaginations of the State and the Struggle for Justice in a Chinese Land-losing Village6. What Rights Cannot Do: The Making and Unmaking of Public Goods in the Yunnanese Countryside7. Public Buddhist Philosophy: Civic Engagement and Discursive Space among a Religious Group in Shanghai8. Concealing and Revealing Senses of Justice in Rural ChinaAfterword

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.

Select Guide Rating

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Judging the State in Contemporary China1. Battles over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emergent Publics in Urban China2. Making Personal Life Political: Political Trajectories of Everyday Conversations in China’s Online Communities3. Marginalizing the law: Corporate social responsibility, worker hotlines and the shifting grounds of rights consciousness in contemporary China4. Judging publics and contested exclusion: The moral economy of citizenship in China5. Policy Documents: Imaginations of the State and the Struggle for Justice in a Chinese Land-losing Village6. What Rights Cannot Do: The Making and Unmaking of Public Goods in the Yunnanese Countryside7. Public Buddhist Philosophy: Civic Engagement and Discursive Space among a Religious Group in Shanghai8. Concealing and Revealing Senses of Justice in Rural ChinaAfterword