Suggested Readings

Bian, Yanjie, Xiaoling Shu and John R. Logan. 2001. "Communist Party Membership and regime Dynamics in China." Social Forces 79(3):805-41.

Brodsgaard, Kjeld Erik. 2002. "Institutional Reform and the Bianzhi System in China." The China Quarterly 170:361-86.

Brown, Kerry. 2011. Democracy with Chinese Characteristics in Ballot Box China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-party State. London; New York: Zed Books.

Cai, Yongshun. 2008a. Local Governments and the Suppression of Popular Resistance in ChinaThe China Quarterly 193: 24-42.

Cai, Yongshun. 2008b. Power Structure and Regime Resilience Contentious Politics in ChinaBritish Journal of Political Science 38:411-432.

Cai, Yongshun. 2008c. Social Conflicts and Modes of Action in China. The China Journal 59: 89-110.

Chen, Chih-jou Jay. 2009.Growing Social Unrest and Emergent Protest Groups in China Pp. 87-105 in The Rise of China: Beijings Strategies & Implications for the Asia-Pacific, edited by Xinhuang Xiao. London: Routledge.

Chien-min Chao and Bruce J. Dickson. 2001. Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. New York: Routledge.

Dickson, Bruce J. 2003. Red Capitalists in China : The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change. Cambridge University Press.

Dittmer, Lowell and Yu-shan Wu. 1995. "The Modernization of Factionalism in Chinese Politics." World Politics, July Issue, p. 467-494.

Fewsmith, Joseph. 2000. Elite Politics in Contemporary China. M.E.Sharpe.

Fewsmith, Joseph. 2001. China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Gamer, Robert. 2008. Chinese Politics in  Understanding Contemporary China. Boulder. Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Goldman, Merle. 2005. From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China. London: Harvard University Press.

Goldman, M. and R. Macfarquhar. 1999. The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Goodman, David S.G. 1997. China's Provinces in Reform: Class, Community, and Political Culture. Routledge.

Harding, Harry. 1994. "Competing Models of the Chinese Communist Policy Process." Issues and Studies. February Issue, Pp. 13-36.

Huang, Yasheng. 1996. Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central-Local Relations During the Reform Era. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Hsing, You-tien and Lee, Ching Kwan. 2009. Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. London and New York: Routledge.

Lampton, David M. 2001. The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000. Stanford University Press.

Li, Cheng. 2001. China's Leaders. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing.

Lieberthal, Kenneth. 1996. Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform. Norton & Company Ltd.

Meisner, Maurice J.  1999. the Revolutionary Heritage in Maos China and After: a history of the Peoples Republic. New York, NY: Free Press.

Michelson, Ethan. 2008.Justice from Above or Below? Popular Strategies for Resolving Grievances in Rural China China Quarterly 193: 43-64.

Naughton, Barry and Dali Yang. 2004. Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

OBrien, Kevin J. 2008. Popular Protest in China. London: Harvard University Press.

Oi, Jean C. 1989. State and Peasant in Contemporary China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Oi, Jean and Scott Rozelle. 2000. "Elections and Power: the Locus of Decision-making in Chinese Villages." The China Quarterly 162:513-39.

Pei, Minxin. 2002. "China's Governance Crisis." Foreign Affairs, September-October Issue P. 96-109.

Pei, Minxin. 2006. Chinas Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. London: Harvard University Press.

Perry, Elizabeth J. 2001. Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China. M.E.Sharpe.

Perry, Elizabeth J. 2007. Studying Chinese Politics Farewell To RevolutionThe China Journal 57:1-22.  

Perry, Elizabeth J. and Mark Selden. 2003. Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance. New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

Perry, Elizabeth J. and Mark Selden. 2007. Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China. London: Harvard University Press.

Saich, Tony. 2001. Governance and Politics of China. Palgrave Macmillan.

Schurmann, Franz. 1966. Ideology and Organization in Communist China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Shambaugh, David. 2000. The Modern Chinese State. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Shambaugh, David. 2003. Modernizing China's Military : Progress, Problems, and Prospects. University of California Press.

Shi, Fayong and Cai, Youngshun. 2006. Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective Resistance in Shanghai. The China Quarterly 186:314-332.

Shue, Vivienne. 1988. The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Unger, Jonathan, ed. 1991. The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe.

Walder, Andrew. 1991. "Workers, Managers and the State - The Reform Era and the Political Crisis of 1989." China Quarterly 127:467-492.

Walder, Andrew G. 2003. Elite Opportunities In Transitional Economies.American Sociological Review. 68: 899-916.

Walder, Andrew G. 2004. The Party Elite and Chinas Trajectory of Change China: An International Journal 2.2: 189-209.

Walder, Andrew G. 2009. Unruly Stability: Why Chinas  Regime Has Staying Power Current History  September Issue  Pp. 257-263.

Walder, Andrew, Xiaoxia Gong. 1993. "Workers in the Tiananmen protests - the Politics of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation." Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 29:1-29.

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds. 1994. Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China. Boulder: Westview Press.

Walder, Andrew G. 1995. Waning of the Communist State: Economic Origins of Political Decline in China and Hungary. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wright, Teresa. 2010. Accepting Authoritarianism: State-society Relations in Chinas Reform Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

White, Lynn T. 1989. Policies of Chaos: the Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Xiaowei Zhang. 2004. Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China. New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

Yang, Dali L. 2006. Economic Transformation And Its Political Discontents In China: Authoritarianism, Unequal Growth, And The Dilemmas of Political Development.Annual Review of Political Science 9:143:164.

Zhang, Le-Yin. 1999.Chinese Central-Provincial Fiscal Relationships, Budgetary Decline and the Impact of the 1994 Fiscal Reform: An Evaluation. The China Quarterly 157: 115-141.

Zhao, Dingxin. 1998. Ecologies of Social Movements: Student Mobilization During the 1989 Prodemocracy Movement in Beijing American Journal of Sociology 103: 1493-1529.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2001. The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Zhou, Xueguang. 1993. Unorganized Interests and Collective Action in Communist China American Sociological Review 58: 54-73.

建嵘.2010.中國底層社會與維權抗爭,建嵘  抗爭性政治:中國政治社會學基本問題 北京: 北京人民出版社。


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