Academic Staff

陈 曦

副教授(研究)

LLB (ECUPL), MPhil (Peking), MA, PhD (Columbia)

Xi Chen received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China (2012), and is currently completing another book, Disempowering Contention: Restructuring, Resistance, and State Domination in China. He has also published articles in journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, the China Quarterly, and the Journal of Democracy.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Social Movements
  • Democratization
  • Political Economy of Post-Communist Transitions
  • State-Society Relations in the Context of Authoritarianism