Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment
Description
This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies.
Keywords
Social ScienceEthnic StudiesAsian StudiesDeveloping & Emerging CountriesPolitical ScienceWorldAsianSociologyAnthropologyCultural & SocialPolitical ProcessLanguage Arts & DisciplinesCommunication Studies
Building Civil Society in Authoritarian China Importance of Leadership Connections for Establishing Effective Nongovernmental Organizations in a Non-Democracy