About the Author

Elizabeth Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is the author of many books, most recently: Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China and Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State.

Reviews

"Meticulously researched and elegantly narrated... It is a book well worth reading." -- Carla Nappi New Bks In East Asian Stds "This is Elizabeth Perry at her best: the book achieves its aims and is a pleasure to read." -- Timothy Cheek Journal of Asian Studies "Theoretically stimulating, empirically rich, and analytically penetrating ... essential reading for students of Chinese Communism." The China Journal