Selected articles

Zhao, Dingxin. 2010. “Theorizing the Role of Culture in Social Movements: Illustrated by Protests and Contentions in Modern China.” Social Movement Studies. 9: 33-50.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2009. “The Mandate of Heaven and Performance Legitimation in Historical and Contemporary China.” American Behavioral Scientist. 53: 416-433.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2009. “Authoritarian Regime and Contentious Politics.” Pp.459-76, in Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective, edited by Kevin T. Leicht and Craig C. Jenkins. Springer Science.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2008. “Organization and Place in the Anti-U.S. Demonstrations after the 1999 Belgrade Embassy Bombing.” Mobilization. 14: 405-428.

Yu, Zhiyuan, and Dingxin Zhao. 2006. “Differential Participation and Nature of a Movement: A Study of the 1999 Anti-U.S. Beijing Student Demonstrations.” Social Force. 84: 1755-1777.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2005. "The Myth of Five-hegemons: Wars and Political Development during East Zhou China." Historical Research. Accepted.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2005 "A Critical Analysis on the Development of the Western Theories of Social Movements and Revolutions: A Chinese Synthesis." Sociological Studies. No.115: 168-209.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2005 "An Angle on Nationalism in China today - Attitudes among Beijing Students after Belgrade 1999." China Quarterly (in press, 2005)

Zhao, Dingxin 2004. "Spurious Causation in a Historical Process: War and Bureaucratization in Early China." American Sociological Review 69: 603-607.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2003. "Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Student-Government Conflicts during the 1999 Beijing Student Protests after the Belgrade Embassy Bombing." Asian Perspective. 27(1): 5-34.

Zhao, Dingxin. 2002. "The 1999 Anti-US Demonstrations and the Nature of Student Nationalism in China Today." Problems of Post-Communism. 49 (November/December): 16-28.

Zhao Dingxin. 2002 "An Angle on Nationalism in China today: Attitudes among Beijing Students after Belgrade 1999." China Quarterly. No.172: 49-69.

Zhao, Dingxin 2002. Problems of Nationalism in Current China: Student-Government Conflicts during the Nationalistic Protests. In Collaboration and Confrontation: Chinese Society and Nationalism, edited by C.X. George Wei and Xiaoyuan Liu. Greenwood Press.

Zhao, Dingxin 2001. China's Prolonged Stability and Political Future: same political system, different policies and methods. Journal of Contemporary China 10: 427-44.

Zhao, Dingxin 2000. State-Society Relations and Discourses and Activities of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. American Journal of Sociology 105: 1592-1632.

Zhao, Dingxin 1999. State Legitimacy, State Policy, and the Development of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. Asian Perspective, 23:245-84

Zhao, Dingxin 1998. Ecologies of Social Movements: Student Mobilization during the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement in Beijing. American Journal of Sociology, 103: 1493-529.

Zhao, Dingxin 1997. Decline of Political Control in Chinese Universities and the Rise of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement. Sociological Perspectives, 40: 159-182.

Zhao, Dingxin 1996. Foreign Study as a Safety-valve: the Experience of China's University Students Going abroad in the Eighties. Higher Education, 31: 145-63.

Zhao, Dingxin, and John A. Hall 1994. State power and patterns of late development: Resolving the crisis of the sociology of development. Sociology, 28(1): 211-30.

Zhao, Dingxin 1994. Defensive Regime and Modernization. Journal of Contemporary China, 3(fall): 28-46.

Earlier Papers on Ecology and Entomology Zhao, D. X., Stewart, R. K., and Boivin G. 1991. Analysis of Time-Varying Survival Rates of Listronotus oregonensis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Environmental Entomology. 20: 1333-43.

Zhao, D. X., Boivin, G., and Stewart, R. K. 1991. Simulation Model for the Population Dynamics of the Carrot Weevil, Listronotus oregonensis (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Canadian Entomology 123: 63-76.

Zhao, D. X., Boivin, G., and Stewart, R. K. 1990. Consumption of Carrot Weevil, Listronotus oregonensis, (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Four Species of Carabids on Host Plant. Entomophagh. 35: 57-60.

Zhao, D. X. 1988. Models on the Influence of Temperature to the Development Rate of Poikilothermal Animals. In Proceedings for the First Conference of the Mathematical Ecology of China.

Zhao, D. X. 1988. A Preliminary Study on the Population of Cotton Aphid in the Seeding Stage of Cotton Plant. Kunchong Zhishi 25: 79-81.

Zhao, D. X. 1987. The Numerical Responses of Coccinellid Beetle, Scymnus hoffmanni to Cotton Aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover Acta Ecol. Sinica 7: 146-153.

Zhao, D. X. 1987. Influence of Temperature on the Development of the Coccinellid beetle, Scymnus hoffmanni Weise Acta Entomol. Sinica 30: 47-54.

Zhao, D. X. 1987. The Ecological Efficiencies of a Coccinellid Beetle, Scymnus hoffmanni Weise, in Relation to Prey Densities. Contr. Shanghai Inst. Ent. 7: 44-50.

Zhao, D. X. 1986. Studies on Predation of the Coccinellid Beetle, Scymnus hoffmanni Weise to Cotton Aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover. I. Functional Response of Scymnus hoffmanni to Cotton Aphid. Contr. Shanghai Inst. Ent. 6: 43-57.

Zhao, D. X., and Liu, B. Z. 1985. The Biological Characters and Models of Pectinophora Gossypiella (Saunders) population. Contr. Shanghai Inst. Ent. 5: 63-75.