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Activating Chinalocal actors, foreign influence, and state response /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Activating ChinaSetsuko Matsuzawa.
Reminder of title:	local actors, foreign influence, and state response /
Author:	Matsuzawa, Setsuko.
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ;Routledge,2019.
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Non-governmental organizationsChina.
Subject:	China
Online resource:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351118460
ISBN:	9781351118460 (electronic bk.)

Activating Chinalocal actors, foreign influence, and state response /
Matsuzawa, Setsuko.

Activating Chinalocal actors, foreign influence, and state response /[electronic resource] :Setsuko Matsuzawa. - Abingdon, Oxon ;Routledge,2019. - 1 online resource. - The mobilization series on social movements, protest, and culture.

Devils on the doorstep: China and "foreign influence" -- Global discourses and NGO development inside China -- Development along China's periphery: Yunnan -- The Ford Foundation's poverty alleviation project: unintended consequencesof participatory discourse -- NGO activism against Nu River Hydropower Dam: horizontal dynamics in transnational activism -- Saving the last great places: the irony of China's first national park -- Conclusion: local actors in transnationalactivation.

This book examines the effects of the transnational social and environmental advocacy of foreign NGOs in China. Based on three case studies, including China's first participatory development project, its first successful case of transnational anti-dam activism, and its first national park project, the book challenges our typical understanding that global forces shape local outcomes. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in China and archival work in the United States, Matsuzawa sheds light on the entrepreneurial behaviors of Chinese activists, researchers, and government officials. She shows that global projects are often substantially transformed by local actors, despite the original intentions of their foreign collaborators and even China's central government. Thus, it is argued that foreign NGOs are not as hegemonic or culturally imperialistic as is commonly viewed. Matsuzawa reveals that their goals may change profoundly as a result of their engagements with local actors on the ground. She offers a new theory of transnational advocacy together with an account of the Chinese party-state's rising concerns over the influence of foreign NGOs. Activating China will be of interest to sociologists and political scientists working in the fields of social movement studies and activism in China.

ISBN: 9781351118460 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

535094
Non-governmental organizations
--China.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236825
China
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JZ4841

Dewey Class. No.: 337.51

Activating Chinalocal actors, foreign influence, and state response /
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