Contemporary Politics

Foreign Relations (Taiwan)
Books

Christensen, Thomas J. 2002. "The Contemporary Security Dilemma: Deterring a Taiwan Conflict" Washington Quarterly, vol.25 4 7-21

Nathan, Andrew J. and Robert S Ross. 1997. The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress. New York: W.W. Norto

Shirk, Susan L. 2007. China Fragile Power: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail its Peaceful Rise. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 7

Articles

Ross, Robert S. 2000. "The 1996 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility and Use of Force" International Security, vol.25 2 Fall 2000 87-123

Swaine, Michael D. 2001. "Chinese Decision-Making Regarding Taiwan, 1979-2000." In Lampton, D. M., eds., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Sutter, K.M. 2002. “Business Dynamism across the Taiwan Strait: The Implications for Cross-Strait Relations”, Asian Survey, Vol. 42, 3, May-June 2002, 522-540.

Foreign Relations (Northeast Asia)
Articles

Christensen, Thomas J. 1999. "China, The U.S.-Japan Alliance, And The Security Dilemma In East Asia" International Security, vol.23 4 Spring 1999 49-80

Gries, Peter Hays. 2005. "China's "New Thinking" on Japan" China Quarterly, vol.184 December 2005 831-850

Kim, Samuel S. 2004. "China's New Role In The Nuclear Confrontation" Asian Perspective, vol.28 4 147-184

Shambaugh, David. 2004/05. "China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order" International Security, vol.29 3 Winter 2004/05 64-99

Shambaugh, David. 2003. "China and the Korean Peninsula" Washington Quarterly, vol.26 2 Spring 2003 43-56

International Relations

Bergsten, Fred, Charles Freman, Nicholas R Lardy and Derek J. Mitchell. 2008. China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities. Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Bergsten, Fred, Gill Bates, Nicholas R. Lardy and Derek Mitchell. 2006. China: The Balance Sheet. Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for International Economic

Lee, Pak K. 2005. "China's Quest for Oil Security: Oil (Wars) in the Pipeline?" Pacific Review, vol.18 2 June 2005 265-301

Lyman, Princeton N. 2005. China’s Rising Role in Africa http://www.cfr.org/publication/8436/ 21 July 2005

Moore, Thomas. 2001. "Empowered and Restrained: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Age of Economic Interdependence." In Lampton, D. M., eds., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000 191-229. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Shirk, Susan L. 2008. China: Fragile Superpower. USA: Oxford University Press,

Domestic Politics
Books

Blecher, Marc. 2003. China Against the Tides: Restructuring through Revolution, Radicalism and Reform. London, New York: Continuum

Dickson, Bruce J. 2003. Red Capitalists in China: the Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Fewsmith, Joseph. 2001. Elite Politics in Contemporary China. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.

Fewsmith, Joseph. 2001. China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Lieberthal, K.G. 2004. Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc

Ogden, Suzanne. 2002. Inklings of Democracy in China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center.

Saich, Tony. 2001. Governance and Politics in China. New York: Palgrave

Articles

Bernstein, Thomas. 1999. “China: Growth without Political Liberalization” in James Morley, ed., Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe

Fewsmith, Joseph. 2002. "Generational Transition in China" The Washington Quarterly, vol.25 4 23-35

Li, Cheng. 2007. "Was the Shanghai Gang Shanghaied?-The Fall of Chen Liangyu and the Survival of Jiang Zemin's Faction" China Leadership Monitor, vol.20 Winter 2007

Montinola, Gabrielle, Yingji Qian and Barry R. Weingast. 1996. “Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success.” World Politics, vol. 48, 1, 50-81

Shambaugh, David. 2001. "The Dynamics of Elite Politics during the Jiang Era" The China Journal, vol.45 January 2001 101-111

State-Society Relations
Books

Bianco, Lucian. 2001. Peasants Without the Party. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe

Kelliher, Daniel. 1992. Peasant Power in China. New Haven: Yale University Press

Pieke, Frank and Hein Mallee. 1999. Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives. Richmond: Curzon

Solinger, Dorothy. 1999. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market. Berkeley, California: University of California Press

Zhou, Kate X. 1996. How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press

Journal Articles

Bernstein, Thomas P and Xiaobo Lu. 2000. "Taxation without Representation: Peasants, the Central and the Local States in Reform China" The China Quarterly, vol.163 September 2000

Blecher, Marc. 2002. "Hegemony and Workers' Politics in China" China Quarterly, vol.170 June 200

Cai, Yongshun. 2002. "The Resistance of Laid-off Workers in the Reform Period" China Quarterly, vol.170 June 2002 327-344

Chan, Kam Wing and Li Zhang. 1999. "The Hukou System and Rural-Urban Migration in China: Processes and Changes" China Quarterly, vol.160 December 1999 818-855

Cheng, Tiejun and Mark Selden. 1994. "The Origins and Social Consequences of China's Hukou System" China Quarterly, vol.139 September 1994 644-668

Guo, Xiaolin. 2001. "Land Expropriation and Rural Conflicts in China" China Quarterly, vol.166 June 2001 422-439

Hurst, William and Kevin J. O'Brien. 2002. "China's Contentious Pensioners" China Quarterly, vol.170 June 2002 345-360

Lee, Ching Kwan. 1998. "The Labor Politics of Market Socialism: Collective Inaction and Class Experience among State Workers in Guangzhou" Modern China, vol.24 1 January 1998 3-33

Li, Lianjiang and Kevin O'brien. 1996. "Villagers and Popular Resistance in Contemporary China" Modern China, vol.22 1 January 1996 28-61

Mallee, Hein. 2003. "Migration, Hukou and Resistance in Reform China." In Perry, E. and M. Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance London: RoutledgeCurzon

O'Brien, Kevin. 2002. "Collective Action in the Chinese Countryside" China Journal, vol.48 July 2002 139-154

O'Brien, Kevin. 1996. "Rightful Resistance" World Politics, vol.49 1 31-55

Read, Benjamin L. 2003. "Democratizing the Neighbourhood? New Private Housing and Home-Owner Self-Organization in Urban China" China Journal, vol.49 January 2003 31-59

Solinger, Dorothy. 1999. "China's Floating Population." In Goldman, M. and R. MacFarquhar, eds., The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms 220-240. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Wang, Fei-Ling. 2004. "Reformed Migration Control and New Targeted People: China's Hukou System in the 2000s" China Quarterly, vol.177 March 2004 115-13

Whyte, Martin King. 1999. "The Changing Role of Workers." In Goldman, M. and R. MacFarquhar, eds., The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms 173-196. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Nationalism

Gries, Peter Hays. 2004. "China's Apology Diplomacy." In Peter Hays Gries, ed., China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics and Diplomacy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Civil Society/MIddle Class
Books

Dickson, Bruce J. 2003. Red Capitalists in China: the Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; Chapters 3, 5 & 6.

Pearson, Margaret M. 1997. China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; Chapters 1 & 4

Journal Articles

Chamberlain, Heath B. 1993, “On the Search for Civil Society in China.” Modern China, vol. 19, 2, April, 199-215

Dickson, Bruce J. 2000-01. "Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation" Political Science Quarterly, vol.115 4 517-540. Goodman, David S.G. 1998. "In Search of China's New Middle Classes: the Creation of Wealth and Diversity in Shanxi during the 1990s" Asian Studies Review, vol.22 1 March 1998 39-62

Foster, Kenneth. 2001. "Associations in the Embrace of an Authoritarian State: State Domination of Society" Studies in Comparative International Development, vol.35 Winter 2001 84-109

Saich, Tony. 2000. “Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China.” China Quarterly, vol. 161, 124-141

Tsai, Kellee S. 2005. "Capitalists Without a Class: Political Diversity Among Private Entrepreneurs in China" Comparative Political Studies, vol.38 9 November 2005 1130- 1158

Unger, Jonathan. 1996. “Bridges: Private Business, the Chinese Government and the Rise of New Associations.” China Quarterly, vol. 147, September, 795-81

Unger, Jonathan and Anita Chan. 1995. “China, Corporatism, and the East Asian Model.” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, 33, January 1995, 29-54

Yang, Guobin. 2005. "Environmental NGOs and Institutional Dynamics in China" China Quarterly, vol.181 46-66

Yep, Ray. 2000. “The Limitations of Corporatism for Understanding Reforming China.” Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 9, 25, 547-566

Village Elections/ Democracy
Journal Articles

Alpermann, Bjorn. 2001. "The Post-Election Administration of Chinese Villages" China Journal, vol.46 July 2001 45-67

Kelliher, Daniel. 1997. "The Chinese Debate over Village Self-Government" China Journal, vol.37 January 1997 63-86

Li, Lianjiang. 2002. "The Politics of Introducing Direct Township Elections in China" China Quarterly, vol.171 September 2002 704-723

O'Brien, Kevin. 2001. "Villagers, Elections and Citizenship in Contemporary China" Modern China, vol.27 4 October 2001 407-435

O'Brien, Kevin and Lianjiang Li. 2000. "Accommodating 'Democracy' in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China" China Quarterly, vol.162 Special Issue: Elections and Democracy in Greater China June 2000 465-489

O'Brien, Kevin. 1999. "Village Elections." In Goldman, M. and R. MacFarquhar, eds., The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms 241-261. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Oi, Jean and Scott Rozelle. 2000. "Elections and Power: The Locus of Decision-Making in Chinese Villages" China Quarterly, vol.162 June 2000 513-53

Pastor, Robert A and Qingshan Tan. 2000. "The Meaning of China's Village Elections" China Quarterly, vol.162 Special Issue: Elections and Democracy in Greater China June 2000 490-512

Pei, Minxin. 2003. "Rights and resistance: the changing contexts of the dissident movement." In Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society: Change, conflict and resistance. London: RoutledgeCurzon.

Schubert, Gunter. 2002. Village Elections in the PRC: A Trojan Horse of Democracy? Project Discussion Paper No. 19/2002 Duisberg, Germany: Institute for East Asian Studies/East Asian Politics, University Duisberg

Shi, Tianjian. 1999. "Village Committee Elections in China: Institutionalist Tactics for Democracy" World Politics, vol.51 3 April 1999 385-412

Law and Corruption
Books

Kwong, Julia. 1997. The Political Economy of Corruption in China. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe

Lubman, Stanley B. 1999. Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press; Chapters 8 and 9

Manion, Melanie. 2004. Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press; Chapter 3 and 4

O'Brien, Kevin. 2005. "Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China." In Diamant, N. J., S. B. Lubman and K. J. O'Brien, eds., Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice 31-53. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Peerenboom, Randall. 2002. China's Long March toward Rule of Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; Chapter 1

Journal Articles

Ding, XL. 2000. "The Illicit Asset Stripping of Chinese State Firms" China Journal, vol.43 1-28

Gallagher, Mary E. 2005. ""Use the Law as Your Weapon!": Institutional Change and Legal Mobilization in China." In Diamant, N. J., S. B. Lubman and K. J. O'Brien, eds., Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice 54-83. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Gong, Ting. 1997. "Forms and Characteristics of China's Corruption in the 1990s: Change with Continuity" Communist and Post-Communist Studies, vol.30 3 277-288

Lü, Xiaobo. 2000. "Booty Capitalism, Bureau-preneurs, and the State in Transition: Organizational Corruption in China" Comparative Politics, vol.32 3 272-294

Perry, Elizabeth J. (1999). “Crime, Corruption and Contention.” In Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar eds., The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; Chapter 14

Shieh, Shawn. 2005. "The Rise of Collective Corruption in China: the Xiamen Smuggling Case" Journal of Contemporary China, vol.14 42 67-91

Sun, Yan. 1999. "Reform, State, and Corruption: Is Corruption Less Destructive in China than in Russia?" Comparative Politics, vol.32 1 October 1999 1-20

Tanner, Murray Scot. 1995. "How a Bill Becomes a Law in China: Stages and Processes in Lawmaking" China Quarterly, vol.141 Special Issue: China's Legal Reforms 39-6