裴宜理（Elizabeth J. Perry），1948年出生于上海。1969年毕业于纽约威廉·史密斯学院(William SmithCollege)，获政治学学士学位；1971年毕业于华盛顿大学，获政治学硕士学位；1978年，毕业于密歇根大学，获政治学博士学位。1972年起先后执教于密歇根大学、阿里佐那大学(University of Arizona)、华盛顿大学、加里福尼亚大学、哈佛大学。曾任哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心主任，现任哈佛大学政府系教授，燕京学社社长。主要学术方向包括：中国近代以来的农民问题研究；中国工人运动研究；中国社会和政治研究；美国的中国问题研究。主要著作有有《华北的暴动和革命，1845-1945》(Rebels and revolutionariesin North China)，1980年斯坦福大学出版社出版；主编论文集《中国人对捻军起义的看法》(Chinese Perspectives on the Nienrebellion)，1981出版于纽约；主编论文集（合作）《毛以后中国改革的政治经济学》(The Political Economy of Reform in post-MaoChina)，1985年哈佛大学出版社出版；主编论文集（合作）《近代中国的抵抗运动和政治文化》(Popular Protest and Political Culturein Modern China)，1994年西方观察出版社出版；主编论文集（合作）《当代中国的城市空间，后毛时代的潜在自治和社区》(Urban Spaces in Contemporary China,The Potential for Autonomy and Community in post-Mao China)，1995年剑桥大学出版社出版；主编论文集（合作）《单位——历史和比较视角中中国变迁之所在》(Danwei:The changing Chinese workplace in historical and comparative perspective)，1997年出版于纽约；著作（合作）《无产者的力量：“文革”中的上海》(Proletarian power:Shanghai in the CulturalRevolution)，1997年西方观察出版社出版；主编论文集《回归本义：东亚劳动者的身份》(Putting class in its place:worker identities in East Asia)，1996年伯克利加里福尼亚大学东亚研究所、中国研究中心出版；专著《罢工中的上海：中国劳动者的政治》(Shanghai on strike:the politics of Chinese labor)，斯坦福大学出版社1993年出版。
英文简介：
Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government. She is a comparativist with special expertise in the politics of China. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, she sits on the editorial boards of nearly a dozen major scholarly journals and is the current President of the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Perry's research focuses on popular protest and grassroots politics in modern and contemporary China. Her books include Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945 (1980); Chinese Perspectives on the Nien Rebellion (1981); The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China (1985); Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (1992); Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Chinese Cities (1995); Putting Class in Its Place: Worker Identities in East Asia (1996); Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution (1997); Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (1997); Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and Resistance (2000); Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China (2002); Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China (2002); Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State (2006); and Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (2007). Her book, Shanghai on Strike: the Politics of Chinese Labor (1993) won the John King Fairbank prize from the American Historical Association.
