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  ANTHONY J. SPIRES

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.

Photo of Temple in Kunming, Yunnan (c) 2015 Anthony J. Spires
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