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  title info:
    title: Resistance Under Communist China
    sub title: Religious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists
  name:
    name part: Wang, Ray.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 235 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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).
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Ray Wang.
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
  subject:
    topic: Asian Politics
  subject:
    topic: Human Rights
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Religion
  classification: JQ1-1852
  classification: 320.95
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Human Rights Interventions
  identifier: 9783030141486
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14148-6
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    record creation date: 190423
    record change date: 20191025221510.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-14148-6