Acknowledgements Notes on Romanisation 1 Framing Social Movements in Contemporary China and Hong Kong Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Gilles Guiheux 2 Social Protests, Village Democracy and State Building in China: How Do Rural Social Protests Promote Village Democracy? Baogang He 3 Social Movements and State-Society Relationship in Hong Kong Ngok Ma 4 Social Movements and the Law in Post-Colonial Hong Kong Albert H.Y. Chen 5 Defining Hong Kong as an Emerging Protest Space: The Anti-Globalisation Movement Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce 6 'Old Working Class' Resistance in Capitalist China: A Ritualized Social Management (1995-2006) Jean-Louis Rocca 7 Justifying the New Economic and Social Order: The Voice of a Private Entrepreneur Gilles Guiheux 8 The Rise of Migrant Workers’ Collective Actions: Toward a New Social Contract in China Chloé Froissart 9 Grassroots Activism and Labour Electoral Politics under Chinese Rule, 1997-2008 Ming K. Chan 10 Hong Kong’s Trade Unions as an Evolving Social Organisation and Their Prospects for the Future Sek Hong Ng and Olivia Ip 11 Non-governmental Feminist Activism in The People's Republic of China: Communicating Oppositional Gender Equality Knowledge Cecilia Milwertz and Wei Bu 12 The Hong Kong Catholic Church: A Framing Role in Social Movement Beatrice Leung 13 Religiosity and Social Movements in China: Divisions and Multiplications David A. Palmer Contributors Bibliography Index