LEADER 03732nam 22006375 450 001 9910338045103321 005 20240312140947.0 010 $a9783030141486 010 $a3030141489 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-14148-6 035 $a(OCoLC)1235813148 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL59QE 035 $a(CKB)4100000007992556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5759477 035 $a(MiFhGG)9783030141486 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-14148-6 035 $a(Perlego)3493325 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007992556 100 $a20190423d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aResistance Under Communist China $eReligious Protesters, Advocates and Opportunists /$fby Ray Wang 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 235 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aHuman Rights Interventions,$x2946-5125 311 08$a9783030141479 311 08$a3030141470 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism. The author focuses on mechanisms used by three kinds of actors: protesters, advocates and opportunists, and uses regional, inter-faith, and international comparisons to understand why some foreign advocates can enter China and engage in illegal aid and missions to empower local activists, while the same groups cannot conduct the same activities in another geographically, economically and politically similar location. The stories in this book demonstrate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach of transnational activism; they challenge the conventional spiral theory paradigm of human rights literature and the narrow views about GONGOs in civil society literature. This new knowledge helps to sustain a more optimistic view and offers an alternative way of promoting human rights in China andcountries with similar authoritarian environments. Ray Wang is Associate Professor at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His major research interests focus on human rights, religious freedom and transnational advocacy networks, and he is the recipient of an Excellent Young Scholar Research Fund from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2018-2021). 410 0$aHuman Rights Interventions,$x2946-5125 606 $aAsia$xPolitics and government 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aReligion and politics 606 $aAsian Politics 606 $aHuman Rights 606 $aPolitics and Religion 615 0$aAsia$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 615 14$aAsian Politics. 615 24$aHuman Rights. 615 24$aPolitics and Religion. 676 $a299.93 676 $a322.10951 700 $aWang$b Ray$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01060753 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910338045103321 996 $aResistance Under Communist China$92515526 997 $aUNINA