Anthony Spires

Introduction: Civil Society in Asia: Challenging and Navigating the Boundaries of Authoritarianism

AJ Spires, A Ogawa

Book  |  2022

In Asia, authoritarianism is reappearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization in many countrie..

Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia

Anthony J Spires, Akihiro Ogawa

Book Chapter  |  2022

In Asia, authoritarianism is reappearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization in many countrie..

Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia

Book  |  2022

This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type th..

Built on Shifting Sands: INGOs and Their Survival in China1

AJ Spires

Book Chapter  |  2022

This chapter examines the ways international NGOs (INGOs) in China survived in the relatively law-less period before the introduct..

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

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

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