ABSTRACT
Environmental contention in China has undergone significant change in recent decades. Chinese environmental activism has long centred on the campaigns and activities of ‘embedded’ environmental actors (Ho 2007; Ho and Edmonds 2007) – environmental organizations with close ties to the Party-state that act on behalf of broader environmental and conservationist concerns – in collaboration with their journalist counterparts in a greening Chinese media sphere (Ho 2007; Ho and Edmonds 2007; Xie 2009; Yang and Calhoun 2007). In recent years, however, a plethora of new actors has entered China’s environmental arena.
