Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

'This first rate collection will be indispensable reading for Scholars of Chinese Society. Each of the book's uniformly excellent well-written and substantive chapters open by providing enough historical background onits specific topic to make it comprehensible enough to advanced undergraduates as well as the general informed reader.' - The China Journal 'I would recommend to all serious students who wish to begin studying this country.' I China Perspectives 'Should be read by all serious scholars of contemporary China.' - Asian Affairs