TERESA WRIGHT

Department of Political Science

California State University, Long Beach

1250 Bellflower Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90840-4605

(562) 985-5347 (o); (562) 985-4979 (fax)

twright@csulb.edu (e-mail)

EDUCATION

* Ph.D., Political Science; University of California, Berkeley (1996)

* M.A., Political Science; University of California, Berkeley (1989)

* B.A., Political Science; Santa Clara University (1988; Magna Cum Laude)

PUBLICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL WORKS

Books

* The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan (Honolulu:

University of Hawaii Press, 2001).

Journal Articles

* “Disincentives for Democratic Change in China,” Asia Pacific Issues (forthcoming).

* “The China Democracy Party and the Politics of Protest in the 1980's-1990's,” China Quarterly (December 2002).

* “Student Mobilization in Taiwan: Civil Society and Its Discontents,” Asian Survey

(Nov/Dec 1999).

* “State Repression and Student Protest in Contemporary China,” China Quarterly (March 1999).

Other Articles

* “Disincentives for Democratic Change in China,” East-West Center Working Paper: Politics

Governance and Security Series 17 (Nov. 2006).

* “The Trials and Tribulations of China’s First Democracy: The ROC One Year After the Victory of Chen Shui-bian,” Foreign Policy in Focus (February 2001).

Book Chapters

* ”The 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement,” in James DeFronzo, ed., Revolutionary Movements in World History from 1750 to the Present (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005).

* “Contesting State Legitimacy in the 1990’s: The China Democracy Party and the China Labor Bulletin,” in Peter Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., State and Society in 21st Century China: Contention, Crisis, and Legitimation (London: Routledge, 2004).

* “The China Democracy Party, Intellectuals, and the Politics of Protest in the 1980s--90s,” in Merle Goldman and Gu Xin, eds., Chinese Intellectuals Between the Market and the State (London: Routledge, 2004).

* “The Limits of Political Loosening: Party Restraints on Student Behavior in the Spring of 1989,” in Bob Adamson and Michael Agelasto, eds., Higher Education in Post-Mao China (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998).

Recent Conference Papers

* “Organization, Mobilization, and Comparative Perspectives on Opportunity.” Presented at a conference on Popular Contention in China, Center for Chinese Studies and Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley (Oct. 5-7, 2006).

* “Capitalist Economic Development and Democracy Revisited: Bringing China into the Comparative

Literature.” Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting (March 1-5, 2006).

* “Recent Dissent in China: Social Democracy with Chinese Characteristics?” Presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 17-20, 2005).

* “Independent Union-Building in China, with Comparisons to Russia.” Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting (March 1-5, 2005).

* “Institutional Legitimacy in Chinese Industrial Relations: the China Labor Bulletin and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.” Presented at the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting (March 4-7, 2004).

* “Recent State Responses to Organized Opposition: The China Democracy Party and the China Labor Bulletin.” Presented at a conference on Reassessing Unrest in China, RAND, Washington, DC (December 11-12, 2003).

* “Democracy and Civil Society in China: Autonomous Organization and Contemporary Challenges to Single-Party Rule.” Presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 27-29, 2003).

* “The China Democracy Party and the Politics of Protest in the 1980’s-1990’s.” Presented at a conference on Contested Claims: The Party, the People, and the Fate of the PRC, Southern California China Colloquium, University of Southern California (April 20, 2002).

* “The China Democracy Party and the Politics of Protest in China.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (August 30-September 2, 2001).

* “The China Democracy Party, Intellectuals, and the Politics of Protest in the 1990's.” Presented at workshop on Chinese Intellectuals and the State, Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies (June 30-July 1, 2001).

* “Does Globalization Breed Democratization? Recent Political Activism in China.” Presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (March 15-17, 2001).

Book Reviews

* Review of Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies, by Kurt Schock and Citizen Power, Politics, and the Asian Miracle: Reassessing the Dynamics, by O. Fiona Yap (Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming).

* Review of Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins, edited by Rachel Murphy and Vanessa L. Fong, The China Journal (July 2006)

* Review of The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement, by Dingxin Zhao, The China Journal (January 2002).

Manuscript Review

Comparative Politics, The China Journal, Modern China, International Studies Quarterly, A.B. Longman, Houghton Mifflin

TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

* Professor, California State University, Long Beach (Fall 1996~present)

Courses taught: Issues of Comparative Politics, Society and National Politics of China, Society and National Politics of Japan, Comparative Revolutionary Change, Graduate Seminar in Comparative Government, Senior Seminar in Comparative Politics, Introduction to American Government.

* Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI (Summer 2006)

* Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Summer 1998)

Conducted interviews with prominent student movement leaders from the 1970s~present, and collected written materials regarding the history of the student movement in Taiwan.

* Visiting Scholar, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Winter 1993~Spring 1994)

Conducted interviews and collected written materials regarding the March 1990 student movement in Taiwan.

LANGUAGES

English, Mandarin