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Resistance Under Communist China = Religious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Resistance Under Communist China/ by Ray Wang.
Reminder of title:	Religious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists /
Author:	Wang, Ray.
Description:	XIX, 235 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Asia—Politics and government. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14148-6
ISBN:	9783030141486

Resistance Under Communist China = Religious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists /
Wang, Ray.

Resistance Under Communist ChinaReligious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists /[electronic resource] :by Ray Wang. - 1st ed. 2019. - XIX, 235 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.online resource. - Human Rights Interventions. - Human Rights Interventions.

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.

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).

ISBN: 9783030141486

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-14148-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254308
Asia—Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: JQ1-1852

Dewey Class. No.: 320.95

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