Associations and the Chinese state
Subtitle: contested spaces
By: edited by Jonathan Unger.
Contributors: Unger, Jonathan.
Series: Contemporary China books/Australian National University
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780765613257
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc. -- China; Civil society -- China
Notes: "An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Civil society in a transitional state : the rise of associations in China / Andrew Watson; title: Associations in a bind : the emergence of political corporatism / Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan; title: China's trade unions in corporatist transition / Anita Chan; title: Embedded within state agencies : business associations in Yantai / Kenneth W. Foster; title: The strange marriage between the state and private business in Beijing / Jonathan Unger; title: The price of competition : the failed government effort to use associations to organize China's market economy / Scott Kennedy; title: Airing dirty laundry in public : anti-domestic violence activism in Beijing / Samantha Keech-Marx; title: Civil society and the anatomy of a rural NGO / Xin Zhang and Richard Baum; title: Democratizing the neighborhood? new private housing and homeowner associations' self-organization in urban China / Benjamin L. Read.