Academics · Demo University

Academic

RankDistinguished

As of2025 · CV

DepartmentHarvard Government

UniversityHarvard

FieldPolitical Science

ORCID0000-0002-7943-2097

Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications139

Citations11,008

h-index54 · Scholar

Citations per year in post224.7

Years in post49 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count76 of 139

Share55%

Positions

Robson Professor of Political Science, Univer…1990–1997

Visiting Professor of Political Science, Nati…1990–1991

Professor of International Studies, Universit…1986–1990

Associate Professor, University of Washington1982–1986

Assistant Professor1978–1982

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Uni…1977–1978

Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harva…—

Top venues 41 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 33 more hold at least one.

Modern China10

The Journal of Asian Studies8

The Journal of Politics7

The China Quarterly5

Chinese Studies in History3

Pacific Affairs3

Theory and Society3

Comparative Studies in Society and History2

Publications per year

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Citations per year

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Publications 139 works

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Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
2015	The Danwei: Changing Chinese workplace in historical and comparative perspective	—	book	726
2000	CHINESE SOCIETY: CHANGE, CONFLICT AND RESISTANCE	—	edited volume	686
1993	SHANGHAI ON STRIKE: THE POLITICS OF CHINESE LABOR	The American Historical Review	book	684
2001	SILENCE AND VOICE IN THE STUDY OF CONTENTIOUS POLITICS	Cambridge University Press eBooks	book	683
2020	Mao's invisible hand	—	book	614
1980	REBELS AND REVOLUTIONARIES IN NORTH CHINA, 1845-1945	—	book	558
2017	Meta-analysis of individual-patient data from EVAR-1, DREAM, OVER and ACE trials comparing outcomes of endovascular or open repair for abdominal aortic aneurys…	—	article	530
2008	Chinese Conceptions of ·Rights·: From Mencius to Mao · and Now	Perspectives on Politics	article	501
2011	MAO·S INVISIBLE HAND: THE POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE IN CHINA	—	edited volume	436
2007	Studying Chinese Politics: Farewell to Revolution?	The China Journal	article	389
2002	CHALLENGING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN: SOCIAL PROTEST AND STATE POWER IN CHINA	Foreign Affairs	book	382
2002	Moving the Masses: Emotion Work in the Chinese Revolution	Mobilization An International Quarterly	article	354
1995	URBAN SPACES IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: THE POTENTIAL FOR AUTONOMY AND COMMUNITY IN POST-MAO CHINA	The Journal of Interdisciplinary History	edited volume	352
1997	PROLETARIAN POWER: SHANGHAI IN THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION	Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	book	308
1994	Trends in the Study of Contemporary Chinese Politics: State-Society Relations	The China Quarterly	article	289
1985	THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM IN POST-MAO CHINA	Harvard University Asia Center eBooks	edited volume	288
2012	ANYUAN: MINING CHINA·S REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION	Japan focus	book	266
2018	Popular protest and political culture in modern China	—	book	239
2002	CHANGING MEANINGS OF CITIZENSHIP IN MODERN CHINA	—	edited volume	230
2001	Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Popular Protest in Modern China	Critical Asian Studies	article	185
2000	Suicide as resistance in Chinese society	—	article	180
1994	Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957	The China Quarterly	article	174
2007	GRASSROOTS POLITICAL REFORM IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA	—	edited volume	172
2020	Educated Acquiescence: How Academia Sustains Authoritarianism in China	Theory and Society	article	168
1985	Rural Violence in Socialist China	The China Quarterly	article	152
2009	China since Tiananmen: A New Rights Consciousness?	Journal of democracy	article	150
2006	PATROLLING THE REVOLUTION: WORKER MILITIAS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE MODERN CHINESE STATE	—	book	101
2015	The Populist Dream of Chinese Democracy	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	96
2020	RULING BY OTHER MEANS: STATE-MOBILIZED MOVEMENTS	—	edited volume	76
1989	State and Society in Contemporary China	World Politics	article	66
1982	Syncretic Sects in Chinese Society: An Introduction	Modern China	article	62
2001	Silence and Voice in Contentious Politics	—	article	60
1993	China in 1992: An Experiment in Neo-Authoritarianism	Asian Survey	article	60
2008	Reclaiming the Chinese Revolution	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	54
1991	China's Long March to Democracy	World Policy Journal	article	49
2014	Growing Pains: Challenges for a Rising China	Daedalus	article	46
1996	PUTTING CLASS IN ITS PLACE: WORKER IDENTITIES IN EAST ASIA	—	edited volume	43
2019	Making Communism Work: Sinicizing a Soviet Governance Practice	Comparative Studies in Society and History	article	40
2015	Higher Education Reform in China and India: The Role of the State	—	article	39
2016	The Promise of PRC History	Modern Chinese History	article	37
2024	English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part I, Vol 3	—	book	36
1983	Social Banditry Revisited: The Case of Bai Lang, A Chinese Brigand	Modern China	article	36
1999	From Paris to the Paris of the East -- and Back: Workers as Citizens in Modern Shanghai	Comparative Studies in Society and History	article	31
1984	Collective Violence in China, 1880-1980: The State and Local Society	Theory and Society	article	29
2021	Missionaries of the Party: Work Team Participation and Intellectual Incorporation	The China Quarterly	article	28
2012	The Illiberal Challenge of Authoritarian China	Taiwan journal of democracy	article	26
1997	DANWEI: THE CHANGING CHINESE WORK PLACE IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE	—	edited volume	24
1996	Labor's Love Lost: Worker Militancy in Communist China	International Labor and Working-Class History	article	22
1976	Worshipers and Warriors: White Lotus Influence on the Nian Rebellion	Modern China	article	22
1985	Tax Revolt in Late Qing China: The Small Swords of Shanghai and Liu Depei of Shandong	Late imperial China	article	21
1999	Partners at Fifty: American China Studies and the PRC	—	article	19
1991	POPULAR PROTEST AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN MODERN CHINA: LEARNING FROM 1989	Medical Entomology and Zoology	edited volume	19
2014	Citizen Contention and Campus Calm: The Paradox of Chinese Civil Society	Current History	article	18
2024	Public Health, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China·s Patriotic Health Campaign	The China Journal	article	14
1995	‘To rebel is justified’: Maoist influences on popular protest in contemporary China	—	article	13
1980	The Mystery of Yellow Cliff: A Controversial Rebellion in the Late Qing	Modern China	article	13
2012	Sor Juana Fecit: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Art of Miniature Painting	Early Modern Women An Interdisciplinary Journal	article	11
1983	Leadership Succession in the People's Republic of China: Crisis or Opportunity?	Studies in Comparative Communism	article	11
1981	CHINESE PERSPECTIVES ON THE NIEN REBELLION	—	edited volume	11
1980	When peasants speak: Sources for the study of Chinese rebellions	Modern China	article	11
2013	Managing Student Protest in Republican China: Yenching and St. John·s Compared	Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard Un…	article	10
2004	Blurring the Boundaries of Governance: China·s Work Teams in Comparative Perspective	Comparative Political Studies	article	10
2009	Grassroots political reform in contemporary China (Vol. 14)	—	book	6
1980	States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. By Theda Skocpol. New York and London: Cambridge University, 1979. xvii, 40…	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	6
2024	Chinese Governance in the ·New Era· of Xi Jinping	Perspectives on Politics	article	5
2007	Red Literati: Communist Educators at Anyuan, 1921-1925	Twentieth-Century China	article	5
2001	Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor, translated by Liu, Ping	—	book	5
1980	When Peasants Speak: Sources for the Study of Chinese Peasant Rebellions	Modern China	article	5
2015	Narrating the Past to Interpret the Present	The Chinese Historical Review	article	4
2021	Debating Maoism in Contemporary China: Reflections on Benjamin I. Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao	Japan focus	article	3
2015	Causes of Campus Calm: Scaling China's Ivory Tower	Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard Un…	article	3
1992	Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. By Jack A. Goldstone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. 608p. $34.95.	American Political Science Review	article	2
2024	English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part I, Vol 2	—	book	1
2012	Anyuan	—	book	1
1980	Research Conditions at Nanjing University	Modern China	article	1
1978	The Politics of China's Peasant Revolution	Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars	article	1
2025	Prospective and Retrospective: The Harvard-Yenching Institute·s Eventful Century	—	article	—
2021	THE HISTORY OF CHINA·S CHRISTIAN COLLEGES [in Chinese]	—	edited volume	—
2021	Not so Grassroots: Social Movements Fueled by the State	—	article	—
2019	Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar, 1930–2019	The China Quarterly	article	—
2019	Teaching Chinese Politics in Comparative Perspective	—	article	—
2019	Work Teams: Sinicizing the Soviet Experience	—	article	—
2019	Revolutionary Tradition and Adaptive Governance	—	article	—
2019	SIMILAR YET DIFFERENT: CASE STUDIES OF CHINA·S MODERN CHRISTIAN COLLEGES [in Chinese]	—	edited volume	—
2019	Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared. Harvard Contemporary China Series 19. Edited by Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univer…	Pacific Affairs	article	—
2018	BEYOND REGIMES: CHINA AND INDIA COMPARED	—	edited volume	—
2017	Revival: Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion (1981)	—	book	—
2015	Rupture or Continuity? Cultural Governance across the 1949 Divide	—	article	—
2015	WHAT IS THE BEST KIND OF HISTORY? [in Chinese]	—	edited volume	—
2015	Reflecting on Anyuan	—	article	—
2015	The Populist Dream of Chinese	—	article	—
2012	Asia: Local Studies	—	book	—
2011	Lower Respiratory Tract Involvement In Relapsing Polychondritis.	Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism	article	—
2009	From mass campaigns to revolutionary engineering : "constructing a new socialist countryside"	Medical Entomology and Zoology	book	—
2008	Chinese-style ·Rights· and Social Stability	—	article	—
2008	China·s Political Tradition and Development	—	article	—
2007	Intellectual Elites and Lower-class Education in the Chinese Revolution	—	article	—
2006	Developments in Social Movement Theory	—	article	—
2005	Human exposure to mosquito-control pesticides-Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, 2002 and 2003 (Reprinted by MMWR, vol 54, pg 529-532, 2005)	—	article	—
2004	Obituary: JAMES R. TOWNSEND (November 9, 1932-Januay 17, 2004)	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	—
2003	The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	—
2003	Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2002	Theory and Society	article	—
2002	The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Student Movement	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	—
2000	Reinventing the Wheel? The Suppression Campaign against Falun Gong	—	article	—
1999	Chinese Anniversaries in International Perspective	—	article	—
1999	The Second Liberation of Shanghai	Harvard Asia Pacific review	article	—
1998	Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Doug McAdam , John D. McCarthy , Mayer N. ZaldSocial Movements, Political Violence, and the State: A Comparative…	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1998	Social movements, political violence, and the state: A comparative analysis of Italy, and Germany.	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1998	Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1998	Banaszak, Lee Ann. Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1998	Why movements succeed or fail: Opportunity culture, and the struggle for woman suffrage.	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1998	The contentious Chinese	—	book	—
1996	Remembering the First Decade of American Research in China	—	article	—
1995	Le Shanghai Ouvrier des Annees Trente: Coolies, Gangsters et Syndicalistes.Alain Roux	The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs	article	—
1994	SHANGHAI SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, 1919-1949	—	edited volume	—
1994	Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China.Gordon WhiteChina's Transition from Socialism: Statist Legacies and Marketing Reforms.Dorot…	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1994	Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China.	The Journal of Politics	article	—
1994	LIVES OF CHINESE MARTYRS (EXCERPT)	Chinese Studies in History	article	—
1994	CASE-STUDIES AND MEMOIRS CONCERNING WARLORD ERA ACTIVISM, FROM SPONTANEOUS REVOLTS TO THE FORMING OF PARTY ORGANIZATIONS	Chinese Studies in History	article	—
1992	Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution.	The American Historical Review	article	—
1991	Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance	Pacific Affairs	article	—
1989	Work and Politics in the Formation of a Chinese Proletariat	—	article	—
1989	Reflections on Studies of the Chinese Labor Movement	—	article	—
1989	Les Cent Fleurs à I'usine: Agitation ouvrière et crise du modèle soviétique en Chine, 1956–1957. [The Hundred Flowers in the factory: Worker unrest and the cri…	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	—
1989	Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981	—	article	—
1988	Peasant Studies in the United States	—	article	—
1988	Nationalists, Communists, and the Shanghai Labor Movement	—	article	—
1983	China Turned Rightside Up. Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World	Pacific Affairs	article	—
1983	Social Banditry Revisited	—	book	—
1982	Millenarianism and Rural Rebellion in China	—	article	—
1982	SYNCRETIC SECTS IN CHINESE SOCIETY	Modern China	edited volume	—
1982	Review 43--No Title	—	article	—
1980	Approaches to the Nien Rebellion	Chinese Studies in History	article	—
1979	Chinese Communists and Rural Society, 1927–1934. By Philip C. C. Huang, Lynda Schaefer Bell, and Kathy LeMons Walker. Berkeley: University of California Center…	The Journal of Asian Studies	article	—
1979	Review 12--No Title	—	article	—
1978	Review of Chinese and Japanese Scholarship : MITANI TAKASHI (1973) "Kokuminkakumeiki ni okeru chugoku kyosanto to kosokai." (The Chinese Communist Party and th…	Modern China	article	—
1978	Review of Chinese and Japanese Scholarship : MITANI TAKASHI (1974) "Kokuminkakumei jiki no hoppo nomin bodo." (Northern peasant unrest during the time of the n…	Modern China	article	—
1976	Worshipers and Warriors	—	book	—
1972	THE STUDENT SPEAKS: MUSIC BRINGS UNDERSTANDING	—	article	—

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