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Publication Growing Pains: Challenges for a Rising China(MIT Press - Journals, 2014) Perry, ElizabethPublication Moving The Masses: Emotion Work In The Chinese Revolution(San Diego State University, 2002) Perry, ElizabethPrevious explanations of the Chinese Communist revolution have highlighted (variously) the role of ideology, organization, and/or social structure. While acknowledging the importance of all these factors, this article draws attention to a largely neglected feature of the revolutionary process: the mass mobilization of emotions. Building upon pre-existing traditions of popular protest and political culture, the Communists systematized "emotion work" as part of a conscious strategy of psychological engineering. Attention to the emotional dimensions of mass mobilization was a key ingredient in the Communists' revolutionary victory, distinguishing their approach from that of their Guomindang rivals. Moreover, patterns of emotion work developed during the wartime years lived on in the People's Republic of China, shaping a succession of state-sponsored mass campaigns under Mao. Even in post-Mao China, this legacy continues to exert a powerful influence over the attitudes and actions of state authorities and ordinary citizens alike.Publication Managing Student Protest in Republican China: Yenching and St. John’s Compared(Higher Education Press Limited Company and Brill, 2013) Perry, ElizabethAlthough similar in many respects, the two major Christian universities in Republican China adopted markedly different approaches to the common challenge of student nationalism. Case studies of the May Thirtieth Movement at St. John’s University and the December Ninth Movement at Yenching University illustrate the consequences of these sharply contrasting experiences. Whereas St. John’s was crippled by May Thirtieth, Yenching escaped December Ninth relatively unscathed. The explanation for the contrast, this paper suggests, lies not in any fundamental disagreement in the mission of the two universities or the philosophies of their famous and forceful presidents. It must be sought instead in the different campus cultures in which the student protests originated, and in the urban micro-environments in which the two universities were located: treaty-port Shanghai and post-imperial Peking.Publication Studying Chinese Politics: Farewell to Revolution?(The University of Chicago Press, 2007) Perry, ElizabethPublication Citizen Contention and Campus Calm: The Paradox of Chinese Civil Society(Events Pub. Co, 2014) Perry, ElizabethContrary to conventional predictions, the growth of protest and civil society in contemporary China seems more conducive to the resilience of authoritarianism than to imminent democratization.Publication Higher Education Reform in China and India: The Role of the State(Havard-Yenching Institute, 2015) Kapur, Devesh; Perry, ElizabethPublication Causes of Campus Calm: Scaling China's Ivory Tower(American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015) Perry, ElizabethPublication Scaling China's Ivory Tower(Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/ DUZ Magazin, 2015) Perry, ElizabethPublication Challenging The Mandate Of Heaven: Popular Protest in Modern China(Informa UK Limited, 2001) Perry, ElizabethArguing that popular protest has played an unusual role in bestowing political legitimacy in China, this article traces continuities in state responses to protest move- ments from imperial days to the present. The author compares the government’sre- cent handling of three different types of protest: economically motivated actions by hard-pressed workers and farmers, nationalistically inspired demonstrations by patriotic students, and (at greater length) religiously rooted resistance by zealous believers. The central authorities’ tolerance toward localized strikes and tax riots, and their overt encouragement of protests against the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, contrasts sharply with the harsh and unrelenting campaign of repression that has been directed against Falun Gong adherents. Explanations for these variant state responses are sought in historically grounded assessments of the political implications of different types of popular protest.Publication China Since Tiananmen: A New Rights Consciousness?(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) Perry, ElizabethDespite the brutal suppression of the Tiananmen Uprising of 1989, the frequency of popular protest in China has by all accounts escalated steadily over the ensuing two decades. These protests—increasingly articulated in a language of “legal rights”—have spread to virtually every sector of Chinese society, prompting more than a few observers to proclaim the emergence of a “rising rights consciousness” that poses a protodemocratic challenge to the authority and durability of the communist state.