TY - BOOK TI - Green politics in China U1 - 320.580951 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Pluto Press N1 - 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 ER -