Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Political Science at ÃÛÌÒÓ°ÏñState University, Long Beach.
Professor Wright’s research focuses on why Chinese individuals and groups have engaged in protests and how the targets of their complaints have responded--thus shedding light on the stability of China’s existing political system and its likely future trajectory.
She’s the author of The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan, Accepting Authoritarianism: State Society Relations in China’s Reform Era and Party and State in Post-Mao China and Popular Protest in China. She is the editor of recent Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China.
Professor Wright holds a doctorate and master’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkley, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Santa Clara University.
