Beijing Women Organizing for Change
Author: Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13:
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Chinese Women Organizing
Author: Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1000181642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day. The political and social changes taking place in contemporary Chinese society have, surprisingly, received scant attention. This volume enriches our understanding of the working of grassroots democracy in China by exploring women's popular organizing activities and their interaction with party-state institutions. By subjecting these activities to both empirical enquiry and theoretical scrutiny, a rigorous analysis of the exchange, dialogue, negotiation and transformation among and within three groups of political actors - popular women's groups, religious groups and the All China Women's Federation - is concisely presented to the reader. This book will be of tremendous interest to students of Chinese Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies alike.
The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism
Author: Y. Chen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-05-23
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0230119182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait. It problematizes recent scholarly understanding of feminist complexity in various Chinese-speaking areas. This book addresses sociocultural backgrounds of how Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong feminist scholars strategize their transfers, localization, and acculturation of Western feminist literary theories. It emphasizes how Chinese literary theorists filter, gate-keep, select, import latest Western feminist theories, and then match them with local socio-cultural trends by exerting comparative researchers' cross-cultural and cross-lingual academic power in order to tackle Mainland China's, Taiwan's, and Hong Kong's own gender problems.
Individualism and Collectivism
Author: Uichol Kim
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9788787062190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocratising Indonesia
Author: Mikaela Nyman
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 8791114829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The fall from power of Indonesia's President Suharto in 1998 has drawn much media and academic attention but the focus has been on the elite perspective, the role of the regime and military; little has been published on civil society, let alone gender issues." "This study, which covers the period from Suharto's fall up until the latest democratic elections in 2004, analyses the role of civil society in Indonesia's transition towards democracy. Here, the author argues that social movements are civil society's primary catalysts for change."--BOOK JACKET.
State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet
Author: Andrew Martin Fischer
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788791114632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most pressing economic challenges facing the Tibetan areas of western China relate to the marginalization of the majority of Tibetans from rapid state-led growth. The urban-rural divide plays an important role in this polarized dynamic but alone only partially explains differences with other Chinese regions, all of which generally exhibit strong spatial inequalities. This book therefore focuses on several further factors that determine the ethnically exclusionary character of current peripheral growth in the Tibetan areas. These include processes of urbanization, immigration, employment, and education as key factors underlying structural economic change.
Indonesia and the Muslim World
Author: Anak Agung Banyu Perwita
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 8791114926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation. This book explores the position of Islam as one of the domestic political variables in Indonesia's foreign policy during the Soeharto era. It argues that the foreign policy of Indonesia toward the Muslim world under Soeharto was increasingly the result of political struggles between domestic actors, particularly the Muslim community and the State.
Islam, Human Rights and Child Labour in Pakistan
Author: Alain Lefebvre
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9788787062466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat this study argues, using the example of child labour in Pakistan, is that a distinction has to be made between the notions of human rights as they are expressed within Islam, and the objective socio-economic and political conditions of each specificMuslim country.
Betraying Big Brother
Author: Leta Hong Fincher
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1786633655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian government. Featured in the Washington Post and the New York Times. On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among China’s educated, urban women. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian regime today. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.
