PUBLICATIONS

Publications in Progress

A long-term study of Chinese civil society and democratic culture – Book Manuscript under Contract with Columbia University Press
Global Civil Society and China - Book Manuscript under Contract with Cambridge University Press

Academic Publications

Spires, Anthony J. and Akihiro Ogawa (eds.). 2022. Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia. New York, NY: Routledge.
Spires, Anthony J. 2022. “Built on Shifting Sands: INGOs and Their Survival in China.” Pp. 218-234 in Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia, edited by A. J. Spires and A. Ogawa. New York, NY: Routledge.
Spires, Anthony J., and Akihiro Ogawa. 2022. “Introduction – Civil Society in Asia: Challenging and Navigating the Boundaries of Authoritarianism.” Pp. 1-15 in Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia, edited by A. J. Spires and A. Ogawa. New York, NY: Routledge.
Setiawan, Ken and Anthony J. Spires. 2021. "Global Concepts, Local Meanings: How Civil Society Interprets and Uses Human Rights in Asia," Asian Studies Review, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1-12.
Spires, Anthony J. 2021. Contributing Editor for “Human Rights and Civil Society in Asia,” Melbourne Asia Review, 6.
Spires, Anthony J. 2021. “Questions and Challenges for Civil Society and Human Rights in Asia,” Melbourne Asia Review, 6: 1-5.
Lai, Weijun and Anthony J. Spires. 2021. "Marketization and Its Discontents: Unveiling the Impacts of Foundation-led Venture Philanthropy on Grassroots NGOs in China," The China Quarterly, vol. 245, pp. 72-93.
Dai, Jingyun and Anthony J. Spires. 2020. Grassroots NGOs and Environmental Advocacy in China. In Esarey, A., Haddad, M. A., Lewis, J. I. & Harrell, S. (Eds.) Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State. Seattle: The University of Washington Press.
Spires, Anthony J. 2020. "Regulation as Political Control: China’s First Charity Law and Its Implications for Civil Society," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 571-588.
Spires, Anthony J. 2018. “Chinese Youth and Alternative Narratives of Volunteering,” China Information, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 203-223.
Dai, Jingyun and Anthony J. Spires. 2018. “Advocacy in an Authoritarian State: How Grassroots Environmental NGOs Influence Local Governments in China.” The China Journal, no. 79, pp. 62–83.
Spires, Anthony J. 2018. “China.” Pp. 49–65 in Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia, edited by Akihiro Ogawa. New York, NY: Routledge.
Lai, Weijun, Jiangang Zhu, Lin Tao, and Anthony J. Spires. 2015. “Bounded by the State: Government Priorities and the Development of Private Philanthropic Foundations in China,” The China Quarterly, vol. 224, pp. 1083-1092.
Spires, Anthony J. 2015. Book Review of Jennifer Ryan, Lincoln C. Chen, and Tony Saich (eds.), “Philanthropy for Health in China,” The China Quarterly, vol. 222, pp. 567-569.

Spires, Anthony J., Lin Tao, and Kin-man Chan. 2014. “Societal Support for China’s Grassroots NGOs: Evidence from Yunnan, Guangdong, and Beijing.” The China Journal, no. 71, pp. 65-90.
Spires, Anthony J. 2014. Book Review of Jie Chen, “Transnational Civil Society in China: Intrusion and Impact,” The China Journal, no. 71, pp. 229-231.
Spires, Anthony J. 2012. “Lessons from Abroad: Foreign Influences on China’s Emerging Civil Society.” The China Journal, no. 68, pp. 125-146.
Spires, Anthony J. 2011. “Contingent Symbiosis and Civil Society in an Authoritarian State: Understanding the Survival of China’s Grassroots NGOs.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 1-45.

* Co-Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award (Article) given by the ASA’s Political Sociology Section

Spires, Anthony J. 2011. “Organizational Homophily in International Grantmaking: US-Based Foundations and their Grantees in China.” Journal of Civil Society, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 305-331.
Spires, Anthony J. 2011. Book Review of Jonathan Unger (ed.), “Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces,” China Perspectives.
Erni, John N. and Anthony Spires. 2005. “The Formation of a Queer-imagined Community in Post-Martial Law Taiwan.” Pp. 225-252 in John Erni and Chua Siew Keng (eds.), Asian Media Studies: Politics of Subjectivities. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.
Erni, John Nguyet and Anthony J. Spires. 2001. “Glossy Subjects: G&L Magazine and ‘Tongzhi’ Cultural Visibility in Taiwan.” Sexualities, 4(1): 25-49.