Teresa Wright

Teresa Wright, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Political Science at California State 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.