Review and Assessment of China's Nonprofit Sector After Mao - Emerging Civil Society?

Published research in English is reviewed on the Nonprofit Sector (NPS) in mainland China since Mao's death in 1976. Redefining civil society for the country, this review article demonstrates that China has a weak but slowly emerging civil society with far more associational freedom than under Mao.

About the author

David Horton Smith (PhD Harvard University, 1965) is Research and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA. Founder (1971) of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action/ARNOVA (www.arnova.org) and NVSQ, he is founding Editor of this journal.

Ting ZHAO (Ph.D. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015) is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Political Science and Public Administration, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China. His research areas include government-nonprofit collaboration in China, conflict resolution/transformation, and state-society interaction theories.

Product details

• Authors: David Horton Smith
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9789004326613
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32661-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 231 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous