Chinese Society

Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky professor of Government at Harvard University. Her previous books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labour, Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution, and Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China. Mark Selden is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University and Professor Associate, Cornell University. His books include China in Revolution: The Yenan Wat Revisited, Chinese Village, Socialist State, The Political Economy of Chinese Development and The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives.

Introduction: Reform and Resistance in Contemporary China 1. Rights and Resistance: The Changing Contexts of the Dissident Movement 2. The Revolution of Resistance 3. Pathways of Labor Insurgency 4. Contesting Rural Spaces: Land Disputes, Customary Tenure and the State 5. The Externalities of Development: Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict? 6. Migration, Hukou and Resistance in Reform China 7. Gender, Employment and Women's Resistance 8. Domination, Resistance and Accommodation in China's One-Child Campaign 9. Environmental Protests in Rural China 10. Alter/Native Mongolian Identity: From Nationality to Ethnic Group 11. The New Cybersects: Resistance and Repression in the Reform Era 12. Chinese Christianity: Indigenization and Conflict 13. Suicide as Resistance in Chinese Society