China Perspectives 2012/3 : Locating Civil Society. Communities Defending Basic Liberties

Auteur:

Olga Alexeeva

Teng Biao

Jean-Pierre Cabestan

Kin-man Chan

Jérôme Doyon

Chloé Froissart

Karita Kan

Thomas E. Kellogg

Frédéric Lasserre

Fiona Yuk-wa Law

Jie Li

David Palmer

Eva Pils

Vladimir Stolojan

Marina Svensson

Carsten T. Vala

Hugo Winckler

Fengshi Wu

Wen-hsin Yeh

Titre de revue:

China Perspectives

Publié ici :

05 Octobre 2012

Mis à jour le :

22 Juin 2017

Langue de publication:

Anglais

Date de publication:

05 Octobre 2012

Mots-clefs:

communautés
libertés civiles
revue
publication
société civile
Chine
Civil society
Sociedad civil
science
Sciences grecques
Fraude scientifique
Sciences
Scientifiques amateurs
Progrès scientifique et technique
ciencia
Ciencias
Epoque Contemporaine
XXe siècle
XXIe siècle
Prospectives
Asie
isi:Area Studies
ost:Multidisciplinary
isi:Social Sciences; Interdisciplinary

Domaines:

Ethnologie, anthropologie
Sciences politiques

Zone géographique:

Asie

China Perspectives, 2012/3, october 2012.

The idea inspiring the present issue of China Perspectives is that there are certain communities – or groups, or fields – in Chinese civil society that can be most readily expected to promote the strengthening of universal values underpinning human rights. These values include freedom of conscience and speech, freedom of association and the right to political participation, and liberty of the person – basic liberties. Civil society and liberal democratic values In different ways, communities of journalists, human rights defenders including in particular lawyers, religious communities, and nongovernmental organisations (NGO) involved in the provision of social services or advocacy can be especially important to the promotion of these values. Journalist communities, religious groups, and NGOs are also dependent on freedom of speech, conscience, and association, whereas rights lawyers are engaged in the defence of the rights to due process, a fair trial, and access to justice.

In non-liberal, nondemocratic political systems, support from international or transnational civil society is an especially important further aspect. Accordingly, the contributions to this volume discuss these fields and aspects. Our project had to overcome some challenges, beginning with the controversial question of whether, even assuming that the idea of "civil society" makes sense, a civil society can exist in (post-) authoritarian China.Addressing this question,this introduction argues for a liberal conception of civil society, and on the basis of this conception discusses the contributions on the particular Chinese civil society fields contained in this issue.An insight emerging from all the contributions is that political pressure on – and sometimes repression of – civil society is met by the strengthening and diversification of resources to resist pressure, and often contributes to rising consciousness of

the institutional safeguards needed for a genuine civil society.

Excerpt from Introduction. Discussing "Civil Society" and "Liberal Communities" in China, by Eva Pils.

Content

Special feature: Locating Civil Society: Communities Defending Basic Liberties

Edited by Eva Pils

Eva Pils
Introduction: Discussing "civil society" and "liberal communities" in China [Full text]

Fengshi Wu and Kin-man Chan
Graduated Control and Beyond: The Evolving Government-NGO Relations [Full text]

Marina Svensson
Media and civil society in China [Full text will be published on October 2015]
Community building and networking among investigative journalists and beyond

Teng Biao
Rights Defence (weiquan), Microblogs (weibo), and Popular Surveillance (weiguan) [Full text will be published on October 2015]
The Rights Defence Movement Online and Offline

Carsten T. Vala
Protestant Christianity and Civil Society in Authoritarian China [Full text will be published on October 2015]
The Impact of Official Churches and Unregistered "Urban Churches" on Civil Society Development in China in the 2000s

Thomas E. Kellogg
Protestant Christianity and Civil Society in Authoritarian China [Full text will be published on October 2015]
The Impact of Official Churches and Unregistered "Urban Churches" on Civil Society Development in the 2000s

Article

Olga Alexeeva and Frédéric Lasserre
The Snow Dragon: China's Strategies in the Arctic [Full text will be published on October 2015]

Current Affairs

Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Is Xi Jinping the Reformist Leader China Needs? [Full text will be published on October 2015]

CEFC News Analysis

Karita Kan
Ambiguous Rights: Land Reform and the Problem of Minor Property Rights Housing [Full text will be published on October 2015]

China Analysis

Hugo Winckler
Reforming China's Criminal Procedure Law [Full text will be published on October 2015]

Jérôme Doyon
Local governments under pressure: The commodification of stability maintenance [Full text will be published on October 2015]

Book Reviews

Chloé Froissart
Isabelle Thireau and Hua Linshan, Les ruses de la démocratie. Protester en Chine (Ruses of democracy: Protest in China) [Full text]
Paris, Seuil, L'Histoire immédiate, 2010, 449pp.

David Palmer
John Lagerwey, China: A Religious State [Full text]
Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong Press, 2010, 238 pp.

Wen-hsin Yeh
Wu Renshu, Paul Katz, Lin Meili (eds.), Cong chengshi kan Zhongguo de xiandaixing (The city and Chinese modernity) [Full text]
Taipei, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, 2010, 402 pages including index.

Jie Li
Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi (eds.), Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge [Full text]
Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 370 pp.

Fiona Yuk-wa Law
Kam Louie (ed.), Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image [Full text]
Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2010, 312 pp.

Vladimir Stolojan
Samia Ferhat, Sandrine Marchand (ed.), Taïwan - Ile de memoires (Taiwan: Island of memories) [Full text]
Lyon, Éditions Tigre de papier, 2011, 284 pp.

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