Green politics in China : environmental governance and state-society relations /
Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr.
- London : Pluto Press, 2013
- viii, 159 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index.
This book provides an in-depth and engaging account of the novel ways in which Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or academia. The authors explain how environmental problems are transforming Chinese society through new developments such as the struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, new forms of public fund raising and the international tactics of grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings of state-society relations in China.