Thirty years ago, there were almost no NGOs in China. Today, there are over 675,000 legally registered, and millions more that are unregistered. This is happened even though the Chinese political and legal environment has been unfriendly, even hostile. My research looks at how this happened, and how it is transforming the relationship between citizens and the state in the PRC.
When the Western media covers Chinese NGOs, they tend to only focus on the ways that the Communist government oppresses, attacks or punishes them. Although these incidents are important, this focus ignores the ways that NGOs are mostly flourishing in China. Read the essay here.
Submitted by Prof. Carolyn Hsu
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