Green politics in China/ Zhangjoy Y

Introduction 1
Stepping into Muddy Water 3
Shades of Green: Balancing-Development and Social
Stability 4
'Sustainable Development' with Chinese
Characteristics 6
Revolution from Within: Changing State-Society
Relations 10
A New 'United Front' 13
Green Politics in China 16
1 Who Is to Blame? 19
Chinese Climate Sceptics: Recounting ResponsibiHty? 19
China Is Not Happy 23
The Unhappy Government: What Entitles You
to Lecture Me? 23
The Unhappy Society; Whom Should We Blame? 27
Public Questioning of Authority 28
Conclusion ' 32
2 Ways of Seeing 35
Looking Through the Lens 37
Making It
Real: Encouraging the Public's Will to
Act 39
, j^casting Individual Responsibility Through the
Lens 43
New Forms of Mobilization 45
An Alternative View of Public Engagement 48
The Power of Public Gaze 53
Ways of Seeing and Ways of Weighing 59
3 Ways of Changing 62
Clean Air with Chinese Characteristics 64
The Politicisation of PM2.5 66
Vi CONTENTS
'I Monitor the Air for My Country' 70
The Imagined Communities of Respiration 77
Trom the Soil' Revisited 78
Open Information and the Silent Apple 79
A Clash of Values 82
A Greener Apple on.'the Ground 88
4 Conformist Rebels - 91
Mitigating Administrative and Financial Constraints 91
Unregistered But Not Underground 91
Conceptual Labour with
Real Cash 93
The Symbiotic Relationship with Government 97
The Government's Role Viewed from the Bottom
Up 97
Attaching the Government's Name 100
ENGOs: A Rebel and a Conformist 104
5 The Green Leap Forward 107
'Policies from Above and Countermeasures from
Below' 108
In Five Years' Time ... 113
What Goes Around Comes Around 116
An Eco-Soft Power? 120
The Politics of Harmony 123
Conclusion; To Stomach a Green Society 127
From Mass Unconsciousness to Citizen Stakeholders 128
Speak Truth to Power 131
Puzzled but Determined 133
Concluding Thoughts 135