Elizabeth M Perry

Shipshape

IF YOUR NONPROFIT BOARD SEEMS BEWILDERED OVER ITS TRUE ROLE, doesn't understand the mission, allows the organization to drift aimlessly, squabbles with its executive director over authority and responsibility--then get ready to have all of that disorder and confusion cleared up once and for all. Sh...

Proletarian Power: Shanghai In The Cultural Revolution (Transitions: Asia & Asian America)

This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. The authors explore three distinctive forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Labor, they argue, was working at cross-purposes th...

Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville

In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability--prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growin...

Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor

This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematical...

The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)

In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a remarkable exploration of how Moriscos, converted Mu...

Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Asia's Transformations)

This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political scien...

Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China (Harvard Contemporary China)

Observers have been predicting the demise of China’s political system since Mao Zedong’s death over thirty years ago. The Chinese Communist state, however, seems to have become increasingly adept at responding to challenges ranging from leadership succession and popular unrest to administrative reor...

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their revolut...

Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China

Think Cool Thoughts

Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State

Animas-La Plata Project: Cultural Affiliation Study

A Brief History of the Town of Glocester, Rhode Island: Preceded by Sketch of the Territory While a Part of Providence

Silence and Voice the Study of Contentious Politics

Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics

Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China

Elizabeth J. Perry

Elizabeth J. Perry (Chinese name: Chinese: ; pinyin: Pi Yl, born 1948) is a prominent United States scholar of Chinese politics and history in the...