| The power of Tiananmen: State-society relations and the 1989 Beijing student movement D Zhao University of Chicago Press, 2008 | 634 | 2008 |
| The mandate of heaven and performance legitimation in historical and contemporary China D Zhao American Behavioral Scientist 53 (3), 416-433, 2009 | 456 | 2009 |
| 社会与政治运动讲义 赵鼎新 社会科学文献出版社, 2006 | 437 | 2006 |
| Ecologies of social movements: Student mobilization during the 1989 prodemocracy movement in Beijing D Zhao American journal of Sociology 103 (6), 1493-1529, 1998 | 391 | 1998 |
| The Confucian-legalist state: A new theory of Chinese history D Zhao Oxford University Press, 2015 | 261 | 2015 |
| Performance legitimacy, state autonomy and China's economic miracle H Yang, D Zhao Debating regime legitimacy in contemporary China, 174-192, 2018 | 229 | 2018 |
| 西方社会运动与革命理论发展之述评 赵鼎新 社会学研究 1, 168-209, 2005 | 166 | 2005 |
| 集体行动, 搭便车理论与形式社会学方法 赵鼎新 社会学研究 1 (2), 2, 2006 | 134 | 2006 |
| An angle on nationalism in China today: attitudes among Beijing students after Belgrade 1999 D Zhao The China Quarterly 172, 885-905, 2002 | 123 | 2002 |
| Environmental campaigns Y Sun, D Zhao Popular protest in China, 144-162, 2008 | 94 | 2008 |
| State-society relations and the discourses and activities of the 1989 Beijing student movement D Zhao American journal of sociology 105 (6), 1592-1632, 2000 | 90 | 2000 |
| State power and patterns of late development: resolving the crisis of the sociology of development D Zhao, JA Hall Sociology 28 (1), 211-229, 1994 | 57 | 1994 |
| China's Prolonged Stability and Political Future: Same political system, different policies and methods D Zhao Journal of Contemporary China 10 (28), 427-444, 2001 | 50 | 2001 |
| Theorizing the role of culture in social movements: Illustrated by protests and contentions in modern China D Zhao Social Movement Studies 9 (1), 33-50, 2010 | 47 | 2010 |
| Nationalism and authoritarianism: Student-government conflicts during the 1999 Beijing student protests D Zhao Asian Perspective 27 (1), 5-34, 2003 | 42 | 2003 |
| 东周战争与儒法国家的诞生 赵鼎新 华东师范大学出版社, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Foreign study as a safety-valve: The experience of China's university students going abroad in the eighties D Zhao Higher Education 31 (2), 145-163, 1996 | 40 | 1996 |
| Decline of political control in Chinese universities and the rise of the 1989 Chinese student movement D Zhao Sociological Perspectives 40 (2), 159-182, 1997 | 39 | 1997 |
| Differential participation and the nature of a movement: A study of the 1999 anti-US Beijing student demonstrations Z Yu, D Zhao Social Forces 84 (3), 1755-1777, 2006 | 38 | 2006 |
| Multifaceted state and fragmented society: Dynamics of environmental movement in China Y Sun, D Zhao Discontented miracle: Growth, conflict, and institutional adaptations in …, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
