Green Politics in China: Environmental Governance and State-Society Relations

Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or academia. The struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, is transforming Chinese society, producing new forms of public fund raising and the encouraging the international tactics of grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings of state-society relations in China, providing a crucial insight into the way in which China is changing internally and emerging as a powerful player in global environmental politics.

Author: Joy Y. Zhang
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 06/20/2013
Pages: 159
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780745332994

About the Author

Joy Y Zhang is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent and is an Affiliated Researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales, Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, France. She is the author of The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China (2012).

Michael Barr is a Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. He is the author of Who's Afraid of China? The Challenge of Chinese Soft Power (2011).

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