Dear all, Very pleased to announce the publication of my new book *The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China* *(* <https://www.amazon.com/Contentious-Public-Sphere-Authoritarian-Contemporary/dp/0691166862/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508937819&sr=8-1&keywords=yawen+lei>*Princeton University Press)*. In my book, I examined how the Chinese state drew on law, marketized media, and the internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but ended up inadvertently creating a nationwide contentious public sphere in China. I also analyzed how the Chinese state, particularly the Xi leadership, has strategically responded to a rising contentious public sphere in China. Best, Ya-Wen --- Ya-Wen Lei Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yawen-lei