Kevin J. O'Brien is Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Patricia M. Thornton is University Lecturer in the Politics of China at Oxford University.

• * Acknowledgments * Prologue: The New Contentious Politics in China: Poor and Blank or Rich and Complex? Sidney Tarrow * Introduction: Studying Contention in Contemporary China Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern * Student Movements in China and Taiwan Teresa Wright * Collective Petitioning and Institutional Conversion Xi Chen * Mass Frames and Worker Protest William Hurst * Worker Leaders and Framing Factory-Based Resistance Feng Chen * Recruitment to Protestant House Churches Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien * Contention in Cyberspace Guobin Yang * State-Society Relations and Environmental Campaigns Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao * Disruptive Collective Action in the Reform Era Yongshun Cai * Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China Patricia M. Thornton * Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest Elizabeth J. Perry * Notes * Contributors * Index

This is a much needed book that will rightfully attract a great deal of attention. The Introduction is a masterful guide to the range of analytical issues concerning contentious politics, and the quality of the research, analysis, and writing throughout is impressive.