Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / D. Jonathan Felt -- Evolutionary Governance in China / Kellee S. Tsai -- Measuring State-Society Interactions in China's Evolutionary Governance / Szu-chien Hsu and Chun-chih Chang -- Participation under Authoritarianism? / Yousun Chung -- Cellularized Civil Society / Szu-chien Hsu and Muyi Chou -- Contention and Inclusion of a Grassroots Community / Yi-chun Tao -- AIDS Governance in China / Chanhsi Wang -- Not a Zero-Sum Game / Szu-chien Hsu and Chin-chih Wang -- Decentralized and Differential Labor Policy Governance / Chih-peng Cheng -- Governing Foreign Capitalists in the Name of Workers / Thung-Hong Lin -- Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Labor Legislation in Reform-Era China / Christina Chen -- State-Society Interactions in the Campaign against Domestic Violence in China / Weiting Wu -- Local Strategies of Engaging the State / Ming-chun Ku -- Governing an "Undesirable" Religion / Ke-hsien Huang -- China's (R)evolutionary Governance and the COVID-19 Crisis / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Harvard Contemporary China Series / Szu-chien Hsu , Kellee S. Tsai , and Chun-chih Chang.

""Adopts an evolutionary framework to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance: community, environment, public health, economics, labor, society, and religion; identifies areas where state-society interactions have shifted over time, ranging from constructive engagement to protracted conflict, thereby providing nuanced insight into the circumstances wherein the party-state exerts its coercive power versus engaging in more flexible responses"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

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