Finally, I would like to thank Elizabeth Perry, both for her leadership in studies of Chinese protest (even when the topic was far less fashionable) and for encouraging me to seek publication in the Harvard Contemporary China Series.
The only staff member mentioned here, and that she ran three other large conferences that semester, says what needs to be said about her abilities. Nor would the weekend have proceeded so smoothly without the efforts of Elinor Levine. Our conference would not have been possible without the generous support of the Institute of East Asian Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Two China scholars, Rachel Stern and Tom Gold, also offered insightful commentary on the contributions, knitting together close-to-the-ground empirics with the larger issues at hand. To David and Sid, I am grateful for launching our discussions and pointing out implications we had missed. Both took to their task with rate-busting dedication, arriving in Berkeley ready to comment on all the contributions, not only the ones they had been assigned. To help us on our way, I invited David Meyer and Sidney Tarrow- experts on contention elsewhere-to serve as discussants. I was open to contributions on any social group and anything related to the unfolding or consequences of protest, so long as theoretical implications were explored whenever feasible. The contributors were asked to consider how their research, old or new, used or challenged concepts and theories drawn from the literature on social movements. The impetus for the conference was a realization that work on protest in contemporary China had reached a critical mass, and it was high time to see what a group of China scholars could contribute to the wider study of contentious politics. This volume derives from a conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, in October 2006. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest Elizabeth J. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China Patricia M. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era Yongshun Cai 9. Environmental Campaigns Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao Recruitment to Protestant House Churches Carsten T. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance Feng Chenĥ. Mass Frames and Worker Protest William Hurst 4.
Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion Xi Chen 3. Student Movements in China and Taiwan Teresa Wright 2.
O’Brien, Kevin J., 1957– HN737.P65 2008 303.48'40951-dc22 2008013946Īcknowledgments Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? Sidney Tarrow Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China Kevin J.
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(Harvard contemporary China series 15) Includes bibliographical references and index. Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, EnglandĬopyright © 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Popular protest in China / edited by Kevin J. The focus is on interdisciplinary research intended to convey the significance of the rapidly changing Chinese scene. The Harvard Contemporary China Series is designed to present new research that deals with present-day issues against the background of Chinese history and society. H A R V A R D C O N T E M P O R A R Y C H I N A S E R I E S 15
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