Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? 1
5. Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China 11
6. 1. Student Movements in China and Taiwan 26
7. 2. Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion 54
8. 3. Mass Frames and Worker Protest 71
9. 4. Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance 88
10. 5. Recruitment to Protestant House Churches 108
11. 6. Contention in Cyberspace 126
12. 7. Environmental Campaigns 144
13. 8. Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era 163
14. 9. Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China 179
15. 10. Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest 205
16. Notes 217
17. Contributors 275