Sustaining Contention: Concession and Mobilization in China
Defending Stability in Urban China (with H. Christoph Steinhardt)
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Yang, Kai. online first. "State governance and protest fragmentation: A critical inquiry into veterans’ activism in China." Critical Asian Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14672715.2026.2629857.
Yang, Kai. 2025. "From parochial activism to national collective action: The changing landscape of minban teachers' activism in China." Modern China 51 (5): 512-540. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00977004251340281.
Steinhardt, H. Christoph, and Kai Yang*. 2025. "Value-driven contention in China: Forms, tactics and state responses." The China Quarterly 261: 39-56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741024001085.
Yang, Kai. 2025. "Accommodating veterans in China: Resettlement, resistance and the rise of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs." The China Review 25 (1): 107-139. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/250/article/955348.
Yang, Kai. 2024. "Demobilizing veterans: Campaign-style stability maintenance in China." Modern China 50 (4): 469-497. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00977004231209992.
Chen, Xi, and Kai Yang. 2023. "The puzzle of cross-provincial activism in China: From relational dynamics to state strategies." Comparative Politics 55 (4): 597-615. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5129/001041523X16776927248933.
Yang, Kai. 2023. "Beyond parochial activism: Cross-regional protests and the changing landscape of popular contention in China." Journal of Contemporary China 32 (140): 280-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2022.2071907.
Yang, Kai. 2022. "Mobilizing without solidarity: Sustained activism among Chinese veterans." The China Journal 87(1): 1-19. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/717067.
Yang, Kai, and Stephan Ortmann. 2018. "From Sweden to Singapore: The relevance of foreign models for China's rise." The China Quarterly 236: 946-967. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741018000486.
Yang, kai. 2024. "Disturbing but Not Politically Threatening: Veterans' Activism in the Xi Era," in Annie Luman Ren and Ben Hillman, eds, China Story Yearbook 2023: China's New Era, pp. 91-102. Canberra: ANU Press. *This chapter was adapted from an earlier version published in The China Story, July 3, Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), ANU. Online at: https://www.thechinastory.org/disturbing-but-not-politically-threatening-veterans-activism-in-the-xi-era/.
Yang, kai, and Stephan Ortmann. 2020. “The Origins of the Singapore Fever in China: 1978-1992,” in Stephan Ortmann and Mark R Thompson, eds., China’s “Singapore model” and Authoritarian Learning. London and New York: Routledge.
Thompson, Mark R., Stephan Ortmann, and Kai Yang. 2020. “he Fall of the Singapore Model,” in Stephan Ortmann and Mark R Thompson, eds., China’s “Singapore model” and Authoritarian Learning. London and New York: Routledge.
Yang, kai. 2017. “Chinese Mayors’ Class in Singapore,” (in Chinese) in Yuanli Lyu, Wankun Zhang, and Jiaxi Chen, eds., Singapore Studies (2016 Volume), pp. 478-492. Beijing: Social Science Academic Press.
Mobilization (revise and resubmit)
Resettlement (revise and resubmit)
Representation (Invited for a Special Issue)
Civil resistance (with Mr. SEGHU, PhD student at Lingnan University)
Governance (with Prof. Lin, Assistant Professor at CUHK Shenzhen)
Measurement
Glorification
Geography
