Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

1. Self-limiting organizations and co-dependent state-society relations: environmental, HIV/AIDS, and gay and lesbian NGOs in China 2. Political opportunities, by accident and design 3. Central policies, local priorities: regional variation of the political opportunity structure 4. Proximate solutions to insoluble problems: adaption to the political opportunity structure 5. More money, more problems: struggling with economic opportunities 6. Forever the twain shall meet: economic and political opportunities converge 7. Strong individual relationships, weak institutional ties: the double-edged pursuit of personal opportunities 8. Social organizations and the future of Chinese civil society.

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Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China

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Dissecting modernity : anatomy and power in the language of science in China

Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 552p. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Muthiah Alagappa has assembled an impressive number of essays in this volume, which is the product of two workshops in Honolulu and Phnom Penh held in 2002. It offers contributions covering 12 countries by 14 contributors, organized by country.

Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space

Recent literature argues that economic sanction threats should be more successful because both sender and target have an incentive to resolve their dispute before entering into costly sanction. Testing this assertion is somewhat problematic because threats are essentially nonevents—sanctions that were never deployed. This paper quantifies the U.S. threats to condition or revoke China's most favored nation status and shows that Washington's threats were not only ineffective but also counterproductive—Chinese accommodations decreased when the U.S. made acute threats but increased when Washington was cooperative. We conclude that for highly salient issues, sanction threats tend to be ineffective.

U.S. Economic Sanction Threats Against China: Failing to Leverage Better Human Rights

1. Introduction: Democracy in the Chinese Context2. Pre-Tiananmen Intellectual Rethinking of State and Society3. Post-Tiananmen Discussions4. Emerging Civil Society: Associations5. Reorganizing Rural Society: Village Self-Government6. Cultural Distinction and Psychological Independence7. Conclusion: Theory and Reality

Chinese democracy after Tiananmen

Since Chinese president Hu Jintao took office in March 2003, Beijing has gradually developed a new approach to the Taiwan issue. The new strategy appears to be “speak softly and carry a big stick” toward proponents of Taiwanese independence and relying on Washington to rein in the proindependence Democratic Progressive Party on the one hand, and, on the other hand, actively seeking reconciliation with the anti-independence Chinese Nationalist Party by offering economic benefits to Taiwan and making limited concessions on some difficult bilateral issues—including the sovereignty issue—to promote better economic and social relations and to undercut support for Taiwanese independence. Although the new approach has contributed to the current reconciliation, there is no change in Beijing's fundamental principles, and the current rapprochement is largely limited to the area of economic cooperation. The long-term impact of the rapid economic integration should not be underestimated. Taiwan may also beco...

Beijing's New Approach and the Rapprochement in the Taiwan Strait

This paper both analyzes and provides a detailed documentation of the conceptual changes in the Chinese intellectual circles’ understanding of the state‐society relationship and the meaning of democracy during the past ten years or so. In the late 1980s, the intellectual circles in China were engaged in intensified debates on issues concerning political reform. New ideas were proposed, indicating important rethinking of democracy in terms of changing state‐society relationship. Increasing emphasis was placed on societal autonomy and plurality of social interests. Correspondingly, the meaning of democracy also changed from the party‐state's monopolized representation of unified social interests to political participation by an autonomous and pluralistic society. The brief period of post‐Tiananmen political backlash failed to inhibit further development and widening acceptance of the new ideas on democracy and the state‐society relationship among a new generation of Chinese intellectuals in the 1990s.

Pre‐ and post‐Tiananmen conceptual evolution of democracy in intellectual circles’ rethinking of state and society

In spite of the fact that substantial progress has been made in the improvement of relations between China and Taiwan, 1 there have been no talks on sensitive political issues. Beijing's proposal for a cross-strait peace agreement is put on hold. Disagreement over the sovereignty of one China and the political reality in Taiwan have conspired to create an apparent impasse and contributed to an indefinite delay of the negotiations. At the moment, a large section of Taiwanese people do not seem to want this peace agreement. The ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) cannot afford to start negotiations without a strong domestic consensus. This article examines the political situation in Taiwan, analyzes the main obstacles to reaching a cross-strait peace agreement, and explores possible solutions.

Cross-Strait Peace Agreement: Diminishing Likelihood

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