Author Description

Introduction: Judging The State In Contemporary China / Susanne Brandtstädter -- Battles Over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, And Emergent Publics In Urban China / Li Zhang -- Making Personal Life Political: Political Trajectories Of Everyday Conversations In China's Online Communities / Cuiming Pang -- Marginalizing The Law: Corporate Social Responsibility, Worker Hotlines And The Shifting Grounds Of Rights Consciousness In Contemporary China / Ellen Hertz And Marylène Lieber -- Judging Publics And Contested Exclusion: The Moral Economy Of Citizenship In China / Alan Smart And Josephine Smart -- Policy Documents: Imaginations Of The State And The Struggle For Justice In A Chinese Land-losing Village / Chi-pui Cheung -- What Rights Cannot Do: The Making And Unmaking Of Public Goods In The Yunnanese Countryside / Andrea Pia -- Public Buddhist Philosophy: Civic Engagement And Discursive Space Among A Religious Group In Shanghai / Weishan Huang -- Concealing And Revealing Senses Of Justice In Rural China /hans Steinmüller -- Afterword / Isabelle Thireau. Edited By Susanne Brandtstädter And Hans Steinmüller. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.