Cecilia Milwertz has an MA in Chinese studies and cultural sociology and a PhD in Chinese Studies from Copenhagen University.
Cecilia Milwertz has an MA in Chinese studies and cultural sociology and a PhD in Chinese Studies from Copenhagen University.
She is engaged in studies of non-governmental organizing to address gender issues in the People’s Republic of China. Her current projects include a study of activism against gender-based violence by Beijing women’s organizations and a project on interaction between three gender and development NGOs based in Hebei, Shaanxi and Yunnan province with non-Chinese development aid NGOs and Chinese party-state institutions.
Books by this author
Beijing Women Organizing for Change
A New Wave of the Chinese Women's Movement
The stories to be told in this study - profoundly moving stories of commitment, frustration and creativity - have implications for civil society theory. They will also provide a wonderfully grounding empirical study for those in the women's movement who have sometimes strayed far from the practical results to which theories are supposed to lead.