Communist China and hearing people's personal accounts about their suffering during the period, her views on the Chinese revolution and Maoism changed fundamentally. Selected honors Her book, Shanghai on Strike: the Politics of Chinese Labor (1993) won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association. Her article "From Mencius to Mao – and Now: Chinese Conceptions of Socioeconomic Rights" (2008) won the Heinz Eulau Prize from the American Political Science Association. Perry received honorary doctorate degrees from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The Asian Studies Library at her undergraduate alma mater has been named in her honor. She also holds honorary professorships at eight major Chinese universities. Bibliography Selected books ) Edited. Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion (M.E. Sharpe, 1981) Edited with Christine Wong. The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China (Harvard, 1985) Edited with Jeffrey N Wasserstrom. Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (Westview, 1992) Shanghai on Strike (Stanford, 1993) Edited with Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus and Barry Naughton. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Chinese Cities (Cambridge, 1995) Edited. Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia (UC Berkeley, 1996) With Li Xun. Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (Westview, 1997) Edited with Xiaobo Lu. Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (M.E. Sharpe, 1997) Edited with Mark Selden. Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and Resistance (Routledge, 2000) Edited with Ronald R. Aminzade, Jack A. Goldstone, Doug McAdam, William H. Sewell, Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilley. Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge, 2001) Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China (M.E. Sharpe, 2002) Edited with Merle Goldman. Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (Harvard, 2002) Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Chinese State (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) Edited with Merle Goldman. Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (Harvard, 2007) Edited with Sebastian Heilmann. Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governanace in China (Harvard, 2011) Anyuan: Mining China's revolutionary tradition (California, 2012) Edited. Growing Pains in a Rising China (Daedalus, 2014) Edited with Chen Hongmin. What is the Best Kind of History? (Zhejiang, 2015) [in Chinese] Edited with Prasenjit Duara. Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared (Harvard, 2018) Edited with Chen Hongmin. Similarity Amidst Difference: Christian Colleges