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POLICY BRIEF NO. 13: On the Eve of the Third Plenum, Are We Seeing a Depoliticization of the NGO Sector?

This Policy Brief is our first in 2013. We hope to continue to publish a Policy Brief once a month or at least once every two months over the next year.

2013-09-17

How Far Has Philanthropy Sector Reform Come Since 2011? The Experts Debate

CDB's Guo Ting, reports on a debate among experts and leaders within the philanthropy sector about how far the sector has come since the critical year of 2011 when it was beset by scandals and energized by microblog campaigns.

2013-09-06

“Civil Society” or “People’s Society”: Where’s the Party?

Patricia Thornton, uses the case of Shanghai to examine an important trend that has received little attention: the increasingly proactive role of the Party and Party-organized NGOs (PONGOs) in managing and guiding the development of the NGO sector.

2013-08-27

A Chinese NGO with International Characteristics: The Morning Tears Advocacy Model

China’s internationalization has led to the emergence of NGOs that no longer fit neatly into the Chinese NGO or international NGO category but rather constitute a hybrid. Fiorinda Di Fabio looks at one such hybrid and its blueprint for conducting effective advocacy on child protection and welfare in China.

2013-08-08

International NGOs Should Increase, Not Reduce, Their Support for Chinese Civil Society Organizations

In response to cutbacks in international funding assistance to China, Yu Fangqiang, executive director of the Nanjing-based civil rights NGO, Justice For All, says that, now more than ever, Chinese NGOs need more funding and support from the international community.

2013-08-01

View from the Media: Controversy over the Environmental Public Interest Lawsuit

Environmental NGOs and scholars are upset over a possible revision to the Environmental Protection Law that would permit only one GONGO (government-organized NGO) to file environmental public interest lawsuits, preventing NGOs from serving as primary plaintiffs.

2013-07-16

Carrying Out Public Advocacy Through Performance Art

Wang Man looks at how performance art can be an effective means of carrying out public interest advocacy in China, using two recent cases advocating on behalf of gender equality.

2013-07-16

Chinese Overseas Investment in Cambodia: Conflicts and Solutions

Cao Ke and Wang Xiaojuan of the Heinrich Boll Foundation’s China office report on the environmental and social conflicts stemming from Chinese overseas investment and provide recommendations on how those conflicts can be ameliorated.

2013-07-16

CDB Editorial: The Advance and Retreat of Labor NGOs

This editorial addresses the troubling harassment of labor NGOs in Guangdong during the summer and fall of 2012

2013-06-13

Chengdu’s Aiyouxi: Building a Harmonious Community

CDB Senior Researcher, Fu Tao, introduces a unique community-based social enterprise that brings theater, a community marketplace, and community self-governance together in a neighborhood in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan.

2013-05-29

A View from the Media: Response to the Quake

When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Lushan, Sichuan on April 20th, media attention turned to fundraising and emergency relief efforts directed at the affected region

2013-05-16

Transnational Activism with Chinese Characteristics

This review introduces a newly-released book on transnational civil society in China written by Professor Chen Jie of the University of Western Australia. Based on extensive fieldwork and mining of the transnational civil society literature, this book looks at the socio-political implications of the operation of international NGOs (INGOs) in China

2013-05-16

Cooperation or Confrontation? The Dilemmas of a Pluralizing Civil Society

In this article, Fu Tao, CDB's Senior Researcher, addresses some important questions facing NGOs both in China and abroad particularly in their work supervising corporate behavior.

2013-05-09

The April 20, 2013 Sichuan Earthquake: How You Can Contribute

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck Lushan County, Sichuan on Saturday, April 20 was the most devastating earthquake to hit China since the Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, leaving more than 184 dead and more than 11,000 injured

2013-04-22

View from the Media: The Mysterious Decimal Point

This week we revisit the China Charity Aid Foundation for Children's “decimal point” incident from the end of last year. The reverberations caused by this controversy are perhaps surpassed only by the infamous 2011 “Guo Meimei” incident in terms of arousing public misgivings concerning public foundations' financial management.

2013-04-17

The Rise of Individual Activism Does Not Signal the Decline of NGOs

In a response to previous articles detailing the seeming passivity of Chinese NGOs in the face of protests and microblogging driven by individual actors, the author argues that NGOs continue to play a valuable complementary role in building China's civil society.

2013-04-10

CDB Reports

POLICY BRIEF NO. 13: On the Eve of the Third Plenum, Are We Seeing a Depoliticization of the NGO Sector?

How Far Has Philanthropy Sector Reform Come Since 2011? The Experts Debate

“Civil Society” or “People’s Society”: Where’s the Party?

A Chinese NGO with International Characteristics: The Morning Tears Advocacy Model

International NGOs Should Increase, Not Reduce, Their Support for Chinese Civil Society Organizations

View from the Media: Controversy over the Environmental Public Interest Lawsuit

Carrying Out Public Advocacy Through Performance Art

CDB Editorial: The Advance and Retreat of Labor NGOs

A View from the Media: Response to the Quake

Transnational Activism with Chinese Characteristics

The April 20, 2013 Sichuan Earthquake: How You Can Contribute

View from the Media: The Mysterious Decimal Point

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