| Social protest and contentious authoritarianism in China X Chen Cambridge University Press, 2012 | 645 | 2012 |
| The Power of Troublemaking: Protest Tactics and Their Efficacy in China X Chen Comparative Politics 41 (4), 451-471, 2009 | 82 | 2009 |
| China at the Tipping Point?: The Rising Cost of Stability X Chen Journal of Democracy 24 (1), 57-64, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| Collective petitioning and institutional conversion X Chen Popular protest in China 54, 55, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Origins of Informal Coercion in China X Chen Politics and Society 45 (1), 67-89, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Between defiance and obedience: Protest opportunism in China X Chen HARVARD CONTEMPORARY CHINA SERIES 14, 253, 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
| Authoritarian Regimes and Social Movements X Chen, DM Moss The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 666-681, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| From resistance to advocacy: Political representation for disabled people in China X Chen, P Xu The China Quarterly 207, 649-667, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| State-generated data and contentious politics in China X Chen Contemporary Chinese politics: New sources, methods, and field strategies, 15-32, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| Elitism and exclusion in mass protest: privatization, resistance, and state domination in China X Chen Comparative Political Studies 50 (7), 908-934, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Village Leaders, Dual Brokerage and Political Order in Rural China X Chen, J Liu The China Quarterly, 1-19, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| The Logic of Fragmented Activism among Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Workers X Chen The China Journal 81 (1), 58-80, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| Civic and Noncivic Activism under Autocracy: Shifting Political Space for Popular Collective Action X Chen Mobilization: An International Quarterly 25 (SI), 623-640, 2020 | 9 | 2020 |
| An Authoritarian State and a Contentious Society: The Case of China X Chen PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2005 | 9 | 2005 |
| Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era. By Pierre F. Landry. New York: Cambridge University … X Chen The Journal of Asian Studies 68 (4), 1256-1257, 2009 | 4 | 2009 |
| Cooptation and protest leadership during industrial restructuring in China X Chen Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China, 133-49, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| Chinese petitioners’ tactics and their efficacy X Chen unpublished paper, 43pp, 2004 | 3 | 2004 |
| The Puzzle of Cross-Provincial Activism in China: From Relational Dynamics to State Strategies: From Relational Dynamics to State Strategies X Chen, K Yang Comparative Politics 55 (4), 597-615, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Civic and Noncivic Activism under Autocracy X Chen Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State, 91-119, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail. By Yongshun Cai. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. xiii, 304 pp. 22.95 X Chen The Journal of Asian Studies 70 (2), 508-510, 2011 | | 2011 |
