Yongshun CAI (PhD, Stanford University, 2001) Professor of Social Science and Associate Dean of SHSS Office: Room 3371, Academic Building Tel: (852) 2358-7823 Email: socai@ust.hk Vitae: PDF

Research Interests

• Social Movements and Collective Action
• Institution Building and Regime Transition
• Chinese Domestic Politics

Representative Publications

1. 2007, "Civil Resistance and Rural of Law in China: the Case of Defending Home Owners' Rights", in Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman (eds.), Grassroots Politics in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 174-195.
2. 2006, "Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective Action in Shanghai", (with Fayong Shi), China Quarterly, no. 186, pp. 314-332 (Won the Gordon White Prize for the most original article published in China Quarterly in 2006).
3. 2006, "State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched",(London: Routledge)
4. 2005, "State Power and Unbalanced Legal Development in China", Journal of Contemporary China, (with Songcai Yang), vol. 14, no. 42, pp. 117-134.
5. 2004, "Managed Participation in China", Political Science Quarterly, vol. 119, no. 3, pp. 425-451.
6. 2004, "Irresponsible state: Local Cadres and Image Building in China", Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 20-41.
7. 2003, "Collective Ownership or Cadres' Ownership? The Nonagricultural Use of Farmland in China", China Quarterly, no. 175, pp. 662-680.
8. 2002, "The Resistance of Chinese Laid-off Workers in the Reform Period", China Quarterly, no. 170, pp. 45-62.
9. 2000, "Between State and Peasants: Local cadres and statistical reporting in rural China", China Quarterly, no. 163, pp. 783-805.
10. 2000, "Property Rights and Evolving Fertilizing Practices in Rural China: Evidence from Northern Jiangsu", (with James Kung), Modern China, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 276-308.

Forthcoming / Work In Progress

• "Power Structure and Regime Resilience: Contentious Politics in China," British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
• "The Suppression of Popular Resistance in China," China Quarterly, forthcoming.
• "Disruptive Collective Action in China during the Reform Period," in Kevin O'Brien (ed.), Popular Protest in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

Professional Services

• Ad hoc reviewer for China Quarterly; China Journal, Social Forces; China Review; Social History; China: An International Journal; Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Courses Taught

• SOSC 184: Government, Law and Society in China
• SOSC 187: Contemporary Issues in East Asia
• SOSC 517: Systematic Research on Qualitative Methods
• SOSC 569: Law and Society in Reform China