Chinese Society

Elizabeth J Perry is Professor of Government at Harvard University. Her previous books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labour, and Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. Mark Selden is Professor of Sociology at Binghampton University. His previous books include China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited, Socialist State, and The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism.

Introduction: Reform and Resistance in Contemporary China Elizabeth J Perry and Mark Selden 1. Rights and Resistance: The Changing Contexts of the Dissident Movement Minxin Pei 2. Pathways of Labor Insurgency Ching Kwan Lee 3. Gender Employment and Women's Resistance Wang Zheng 4. Migration, Hukou and Resistance in Reform China Hein Mallee 5. Domination, Resistance and Accommodation in China's One-Child Campaign Tyrene White 6. The 'Externalities of Development': Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict? David Zweig 7. Environmental Protests in Rural China Jun Jing 8. Religion as Resistance Stephan Feuchtwang 9. Ethnic Resistance with Socialist Characteristics Uradyn E Bulag 10. The Revolution of Resistance Geremie R Barme 11. Suicide as Resistance in Chinese Society Sing Lee and Arthur Kleinman