Introduction: Chinese Associations, Civil Society, and State Corporatism: Disputed Terrain, Jonathan Unger; 1. Civil Society in a Transitional State: The Rise of Associations in China, Andrew Watson; 2. Association in a Bind: The Emergence of Political Corporatism, Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan; 3. China's Trade Unions in Corporatist Transition, Anita Chan; 4. Embedded Within State Agencies: Business Associations in Yantai, Kenneth W. Foster; 5. The Strange Marriage Between the State and Private Business in Beijing, Jonathan Unger; 6. The Price of Competition: The Failed Government Effort to Use Associations to Organize China's Market Economy, Scott Kennedy; 7.

Airing Dirty Laundry in Public: Anti-Domestic Violence Activism in Beijing, Samantha Keech-Marx; 8. Civil Society and the Anatomy of a Rural NGO, Xin Zhang and Richard Baum; 9. Democratizing the Neighborhood? New Private Housing and Homeowner Associations' Self-Organization in Urban China, Benjamin L. Read; Bibliography; Index.