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1 online resource (xiv, 516 pages) : illustrations |
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Nonprofit and civil society studies |
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Nonprofit and civil society studies.
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| Contents |
Mesomobilization and the June Uprising: Strategic and Cultural Integration in Pro-democracy Movements in South Korea / Chulhee Chung -- Mapping South Korean Women's Movements During and After Democratization: Shifting Identities / Song-Woo Hur -- The Korean Environmental Movement: Green Politics Through Social Movement / Dowan Ku Introduction to Taiwanese Society, Culture, and Politics / Ming-sho Ho and Jeffrey Broadbent -- Social Movements in Taiwan: A Typological Analysis / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- ''Rosy Periwinkle'': The Politics of the Licensed Prostitutes Movement in Taiwan / Mau-Kuei Chang and Yufen Chang -- Environmental Movement in Democratizing Taiwan (1980-2004): A Political Opportunity Structure Perspective / Ming-sho Ho -- Introduction to Hong Kong History and Society / Stephen Chiu -- The Reign of Market: Institutional Setting, Business Cycle, and Strikes in Hong Kong / Stephen Chiu -- Social Movement as Cognitive Praxis: The Case of the Student Movement and the Labor Movement in Hong Kong / Benjamin K.P. Leung -- The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region / Alvin Y. So |
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Introduction to Chinese Society, Culture, and Politics / Dingxin Zhao and Jeffrey Broadbent -- State Legitimacy and Dynamics of the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement in Beijing / Dingxin Zhao -- Institutionalized Official Hostility and Protest Leader Logic: A Long-Term Chinese Peasants Collective Protest at Dahe Dam in the 1980s / Jun Jin -- The Routinization of Liminality: The Persistence of Activism Among China's Red Guard Generation / Guobin Yang -- Introduction to Singapore Society, Culture, and Politics / John Clammer and Jeffrey Broadbent -- Solidarity from Above: State Ideology, Religion, and the Absence of Social Movements in Contemporary Singapore / John Clammer |
| Summary |
In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia, a different understanding of history, politics, and society is needed. The region's long traditions of centralized, authoritarian states buttressed by Confucian and in some cases Communist ideologies may render this concept irrelevant. The chapters in this international volume cover most of the are |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Social status -- East Asia
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Social movements -- East Asia
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Civil society -- East Asia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Civil society
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Social movements
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Social status
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Sociale bewegingen.
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| SUBJECT |
East Asia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011005273
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East Asia -- Social conditions
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East Asia
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Oost-Azië
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Broadbent, Jeffrey
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Brockman, Vicky
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| LC no. |
2011283850 |
| ISBN |
9780387096261 |
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0387096264 |
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9780387096254 |
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0387096256 |
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