Chinese Women Organizing

Chinese Women Organizing
Author: Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000181642

In 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

The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism
Author: Y. Chen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230119182

In 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.

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Total Pages: 306
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Democratising Indonesia

Democratising Indonesia
Author: Mikaela Nyman
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 8791114829

"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

State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet
Author: Andrew Martin Fischer
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788791114632

The 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

Indonesia and the Muslim World
Author: Anak Agung Banyu Perwita
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 8791114926

Annotation. 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

Islam, Human Rights and Child Labour in Pakistan
Author: Alain Lefebvre
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9788787062466

What 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.

Women, Religion, and Space in China

Women, Religion, and Space in China
Author: Maria Jaschok
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136680624

What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local Islamic women’s mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in China. These women passionately – often against unimaginable odds – defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.