Introduction: reform and resistance in contemporary China / Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden -- Rights and resistance: the changing contexts of the dissident movement / Minzin Pei -- Pathways of labor insurgency / Ching Kwan Lee -- Gender, employment and women's resistance / Wang Zheng -- Migration, hukou and resistance in reform China / Hein Mallee -- Domination, resistance and accommodation in China's one-child campaign / Tyrene White -- The "externalities of development": can new political institutions manage rural conflict? / David Zweig -- Environmental protests in rural China / Jun Jing -- Religion as resistance / Stephen Feuchtwang -- Ethnic resistance with socialist characteristics / Uradyn E. Bulag -- The revolution of resistance / Geremie R. Barmé -- Suicide as resistance in Chinese society / Sing Lee and Arthur Kleinman.