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Seminar
Emerging civil society in Asia: The case of China
- Date:
- 02.Oct.2007
- Time:
- 10:00 hrs
- Place:
- CIDOB Fundation. Elisabets,12. 08001 Barcelona
- Organised by:
- CIDOB’s Foundation Asia Programme
2-3 October 2007
With a regime such as that of the Communist Party, China lacks a civil society comparable with that of Western countries. Nevertheless, certain spaces separated from the established power exist that are used by non-official social movements which possess great strength. It is these spaces that some intellectuals view as being linked with the idea of democracy from a Chinese perspective. Intellectuals who themselves possess a certain capacity for influencing the ruling class, and which could thus be viewed as a certain type of civil society. At a time when China has become one of the main world laboratories with respect to political innovation (and one which gives us the opportunity to reflect upon our own models in the West), the objective of this seminar is to analyse the emergence of this phenomenon.
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