Abstract:  The emotional perspective is an important one to understand mass disturbances in present China. Taking the DH Event as a principal case and with this case extended to other mass disturbances, the current paper analyzes and extracts the general logic of emotion in current Chinese mass disturbances. The pervading discontent and the dissatisfaction with the moral construction among the masses caused by systemrelated obstacles in opinion expression have made emotion the most important mechanism determining the occurrence, development and evolution of mass disturbances. Emotion, as the basic logic supportive of mass disturbances, performs mainly in two ways: emotion release and emotion management, as the two sides of one coin, a mode characteristic of the emotional expression among the general public. The former aims at the peripheral and marginal part of power while the latter determines the process of mass disturbances as a routine factor. What should be emphasized especially is the performance of emotion as a part of emotion management. It is a core factor in understanding the peculiarity of expression of emotion in mass disturbances, and makes the emotion management in Chinese mass disturbances quite different from that in other social movements in the past. This is macroscopically due to the asymmetric statesociety relationship. If there is no change of this structure, it is unlikely for current mass disturbances to turn into social movements in the conventional sense. And they will only occur periodically in the complex interaction of modernity and tradition as a special kind of response to social conflicts during the transition in China as weaker groups.

Key words: mass disturbance , the logic of emotion , DH event , emotion release ,  emotion management , performance of emotion