This collection analyses Chinese protest movements and state responses.

Edited by Hank Johnston and Sheldon Zhang

Part I. The Landscape of Protest and Resistance in China

1. Nonviolent Protest in China: Repertories of Resistance and Repression, Hank Johnston and Sheldon Zhang

2. Popular Protests in China, 2000-2019, Chih-Jou Jay Chen

3. Repertoires of Resistance in a Three-Gorges-Dam Migrants' Petitioning Campaign, Wing-Chung Ho

Part II. Political Opportunities and Constraints

4. Resistance and the Exclusion of Civic Activism, Xi Chen

5. Bureaucrat-Assisted Contention in China, Kevin J. O'Brien, Lianjiang Li and Mingxing Liu

6. Soft Repression and Protest Demobilization, Yue Xie

Part III. Environmental Protest

7. Mobilizing Environmental Protests in China, Setsuko Matsugawa

8. Brokering and Buffering Mechanisms: Participation in Environmental Protests, Yang Zhang

Part IV. Hong Kong

9. Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement Learned the Lesson of the Umbrella Movement, Ming-shou Ho

10. Hong Kong's Tiananmen Vigil: Collective Identity and Mechanisms of Memory, Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen

Part V. Religion, Protest, and the State

11. The Public Transcript and the Rise and Shutdown of China's Protestant 'Urban Churches', Carsten Vala

12. Religion and Participation in Protest Movements, Chengzhi Yi, Geping Qiu and Tao Liang