Introduction : popular protest and state legitimation in 21st-century China / Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen
1. Legitimacy crisis in China? / Vivienne Shue
2. new crowd of the dispossessed : the shift of the urban proletariat from master to mendicant / Dorothy J. Solinger
3. Iron Man weeps : joblessness and political legitimacy in the Chinese rust belt / Timothy B. Weston
4. Comrades and collectives in arms : tax resistance, evasion and avoidance strategies in post-Mao China / Patricia Thornton
5. Neither transgressive nor contained : boundary-spanning contention in China / Kevin J. O'Brien
6. Contesting state legitimacy in the 1990s : the China Democracy Party and the China Labor Bulletin / Teresa Wright
7. Dilemmas of party adaptation : the CCP's strategies for survival / Bruce J. Dickson
8. state of youth/youth and the state in early 21st-century China : the triumph of the urban rich? / Stanley Rosen
9. Popular nationalism and state legitimation in China / Peter Hays Gries
10. What legitimacy resides in beautiful objects : repatriating Beijing's looted zodiac animal heads / Richard Kraus
11. What is China? : who is Chinese? : Han-minority relations, legitimacy and the state / Colin Mackerras
12. State and society in transitions from communism : China in comparative perspective / Harley Balzer.
