Anthony Spires

Global Concepts, Local Meanings: How Civil Society Interprets and Uses Human Rights in Asia

Ken MP Setiawan, Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2021  |  Asian Studies Review

Over the past few decades, the human rights movement has made impressive inroads in Asia: human rights have become enshrined in na..

Marketization and Its Discontents: Unveiling the Impacts of Foundation-led Venture Philanthropy on Grassroots NGOs in China

Weijun Lai, Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2021  |  CHINA QUARTERLY

AbstractAlthough the Chinese state has an outsized influence on shaping civil society in China, extant literature has generally ov..

Questions and Challenges for Civil Society and Human Rights in Asia

Anthony Spires

Journal article  |  2021  |  Melbourne Asia Review

Grassroots NGOs and Environmental Advocacy in China

Jingyun Dai, Anthony Spires

Book Chapter  |  2020

From undrinkable water to hazardous air, china faces daunting environmental problems. In reaction, the Chinese public has been tak..

Regulation as Political Control: China's First Charity Law and Its Implications for Civil Society

Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2019  |  NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY

With the passage of a nationwide Charity Law in March 2016, Chinese nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) entered a new and unprece..

The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China. By Stephen Noakes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 208 pp. ISBN: 9781526119476 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Journal of Asian Studies

Chinese youth and alternative narratives of volunteering

Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2018  |  CHINA INFORMATION

Over the past 20 years, volunteering has developed as a new field for governmental control and regulation of an emergent civil soc..

Advocacy in an Authoritarian State: How Grassroots Environmental NGOs Influence Local Governments in China

Jingyun Dai, Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2018  |  CHINA JOURNAL

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AJ Spires

Book Chapter  |  2018

The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding s..

Bounded by the State: Government Priorities and the Development of Private Philanthropic Foundations in China

Weijun Lai, Jiangang Zhu, Lin Tao, Anthony J Spires

Journal article  |  2015  |  CHINA QUARTERLY

AbstractFrom a regulatory perspective, philanthropy in China has been officially modernized. Since the government established a le..