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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joy Yueyue Zhang; Michael Barr |
ISBN: | 9780745333007 0745333001 9780745332994 0745332994 |
OCLC Number: | 853461405 |
Description: | viii, 159 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1 Who Is to Blame? 19 -- Chinese Climate Sceptics: Recounting Responsibility? 19 -- China Is Not Happy 23 -- The Unhappy Government: What Entitles-You to Lecture Me? 23 -- The Unhappy Society: Whom Should We Blame? 27 -- Public Questioning of Authority 28 -- Conclusion 32 -- 2 Ways of Seeing 35 -- Looking Through the Lens 37 -- Making It Real: Encouraging the Public's Will to Act 39 -- Recasting Individual Responsibility Through the Lens 43 -- New Forms of Mobilization 45 -- An Alternative View of Public Engagement 48 -- The Power of Public Gaze 53 -- Ways of Seeing and Ways of Weighing 59 -- 3 Ways of Changing 62 -- Clean Air with Chinese Characteristics 64 -- The Politicisation of PM2.5 66 -- 'I Monitor the Air for My Country' 70 -- The Imagined Communities of Respiration 77 -- 'From the Soil' Revisited 78 -- Open Information and the Silent Apple 79 -- A Clash of Values 82 -- A Greener Apple on the Ground 88 -- 4 Conformist Rebels 91 -- Mitigating Administrative and Financial Constraints 91 -- Unregistered But Not Underground 91 -- Conceptual Labour with Real Cash 93 -- The Symbiotic Relationship with Government 97 -- The Government's Role Viewed from the Bottom Up 97 -- Attaching the Government's Name 100 -- ENGOs: A Rebel and a Conformist 104 -- 5 The Green Leap Forward 107 -- 'Policies from Above and Countermeasures from Below' 108 -- In Five Years' Time ... 113 -- What Goes Around Comes Around 116 -- An Eco-Soft Power? 120 -- The Politics of Harmony 123. |
Responsibility: | Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr. |
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'A very insightful and in-depth study on Chinese green NGOs, their relation with the party-state, political leverage, and the multi-dimensional ways in which they influence environmental policy and frame their campaigns' -- Peter Ho, Ford Foundation 'Through a series of fascinating case studies and interviews, Zhang and Barr reveal the complex interaction between China's people and its government as policy is decided and implemented' -- Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University Read more...
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