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
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.