Elizabeth J. Perry

Elizabeth J. Perry

Elizabeth J. Perry (1948-) is a prominent United States scholar of Chinese politics and history in the Department of Government, Harvard University (United States) where she is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is currently President-elect of the Association for Asian Studies.

Born in Shanghai to a missionary family just one year before the communist takeover of mainland China, Elizabeth Perry was brought to Tokyo by her parents and spent her childhood in Japan. She later returned to the United States and attended Hobart and William Smith College (1965-1969). In 1978, she received a Ph.D. from University of Michigan. Perry's research focuses on popular protest and political behavior in China since approximately 1845.

Bibliography

*Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 (1980)
*Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion (1981)
*The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China (1985)
*Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (1992)
*Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Chinese Cities (1995)
*Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia (1996)
*Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (1997)
*Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (1997)
*Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and Resistance (2000)
*Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China (2002)
*Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (2002)
*Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Chinese State (2005)
*Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (2007)

External links

* [http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/eperry/ Homepage at Harvard University]
* [http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/eperry/vita.pdf Curriculum vita] (from official homepage)


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