Kevin J. O’Brien is Bedford Professor of Political Science at the University

of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on popular p rotest and Chinese

politics in the reform era. He is the author of Reform without Liberalization:

China’s National People’s Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change and the coeditor of Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice. Currently, he is serving as the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCBerkeley.

Lianjiang Li is an associate professor in the Department of Government and

International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research focuses

on village elections and collective action in rural China. He has published in

Asian Survey, China Information, China Journal, China Quarterly, Comparative

Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Modern China.