Civil Society and Social Control in China in the Xi Jinping Era
November 13, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
118 Elliot
118 Elliot St, Brattleboro, VT 05301
Does anything at all remain of civic action and space for civic activity in the Xi Jinping era in China? The twelve years since the Xi era began in China in 2012 have seen a steady strengthening of social control, a reduction in the role of nongovernmental organizations and civic action, and repression of activists and dissidents. At the same time, nongovernmental social service activity and private philanthropy is continuing to grow in China. Based on many years of work and research in China, this talk explores how China is approaching various forms of civic activity in the Xi era by domestic groups and by foreign organizations, and what may lie ahead for the civil society sector.
Mark Sidel is Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He serves on the boards of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, the China Medical Board, The Rights Practice (US), and other organizations.
He is a longtime specialist in civil society, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropy. He has been engaged with China since first visiting in 1972, including serving on the team that established the Ford Foundation’s presence in China in the late 1980s and as a researcher and consultant. He also managed the Ford Foundation’s programs in China and served in the Ford office in India
Sidel has consulted widely with foundations, nongovernmental organizations and aid agencies on nonprofit and philanthropic activity in China, Vietnam, India and elsewhere in Asia. He has served as visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School, Institutd’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and other institutions, and has published widely on civil society, philanthropy and state-society relations in China and around Asia.
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