Peter Hays Gries is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the university of Colorado, Boulder and Co-Director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue. He is author of China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy.

Stanley Rosen is Professor in the School of Political Science at the University of Southern California. He has published widely on China and his books include: Red Guard Factionalism and the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou and Policy Conflicts in Post-Mao China: A Documentary Survey with Analysis.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Popular Protest and State Legitimation in Twenty-First Century China

1. Legitimacy Crisis in China?

2. The New Crowd of the Disposessed: The Shift of the Urban Proletariat from Master to Mendicant

3. Society's Masters' Struggle to Survive: State Workers, Joblessness and Contention in Post-Deng China

4. Comrades and Collectives in Arms: Tax Resistance, Evasion and Avoidance Strategies in Post-Mao China

5. Neither Contained nor Transgressive: Boundary-Spanning Contention in China

6. The China Democracy Party, Intellectuals and the Politics of Protest

7. Who Does the Party Represent? From 'Three Revolutionary Classes' to 'Three Represents'

8. The State of Youth/Youth and the State in Early Twenty-First Century China

9. Popular Nationalism and State Legitimation

10. Seeking Legitimacy Through Art: China's Plunge into the International Cultural Economy

11. What Is China? Who Is Chinese? Han-Minority Relations, Legitimacy and the State

12. State and Society in Transitions From Communism: China in Comparative Perspective