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BL
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861118
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Wang, Ray, (Political scientist)
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| Title & Author
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Resistance under communist China : : religious protesters, advocates and opportunists /\ Ray Wang.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Human rights interventions
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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3030141489
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: 9783030141486
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3030141470
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9783030141479
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Facilitating activism in a strong authoritarian state -- China's religious affairs policy -- United front work and religious affairs institutions -- A tale of four cities : transnational Christian activism in the heartland -- Buddha versus Jesus : the transnationalism of traditional religions -- Go beyond religion and China -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Religion and politics-- China.
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Religion and politics.
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RELIGION-- Christian Life-- Social Issues.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.
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China.
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| Dewey Classification
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261.70951
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| LC Classification
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BL65.P7W36 2019
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