ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, I briefly showed how some scholars feel that globalization processes can lead to declines in state legitimacy, as well as how Kisho Kurokawa feels that “symbiosis” is one way that participants in social relationships may adapt to changes in their external environment like those created by globalization. In subsequent chapters I will show how international factors were centrally important in inspiring an expansion in Chinese women's movement activism, as well as the Chinese party-state's ultimate willingness to tolerate much of that expansion. In this chapter, I will look at some components of social movement theory, as well as some theories of globalization. In particular, I will focus upon some aspects of both sets of theory that are particularly relevant to ideas of (1) a symbiotic social movement in a non-democratic context such as China, and (2) the potential effects and contradictions of globalization processes for such a movement. Such attention is necessary for a number of reasons.
