Contemporary China Studies 1

Tak-Wing Ngo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau. He specializes in state–market relations, regulatory governance, and the political economy of development in East Asia. He holds a PhD from SOAS (London), and worked as an anti-corruption official and journalist before joining the academia. He has taught at Leiden University, and was the holder of the IIAS Chair in Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the editor of the refereed journal China Information, and the editor of the book series Governance in Asia (NIAS Press) and Global Asia (Amsterdam University Press).

• VOLUME 1: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES OF THE PARTY-STATEThe Post-Mao Reforms in Historical Perspective - Paul CohenMechanisms for Party Control in the Government Bureaucracy in China - A. Doak BarnettExplaining Politics in the People′s Republic of China: The Structural Alternative - Avery GoldsteinInformal Politics among the Chinese Communist Party Elite - Lowell DittmerIdeology and the Demise or Maintenance of Soviet-type Regimes: Perspectives on the Chinese Case - Yan SunManaging Chinese Bureaucrats: An Institutional Economics Perspective - Yasheng HuangThe ′Fragmented Authoritarianism′ Model and its Limitations - Kenneth LieberthalThe Chinese Communist Party′s Nomenklatura System as a Leadership Selection Mechanism: An Evaluation - John BurnsThe Soldier and the State in China: The Political Work System in the People′s Liberation Army - David ShambaughAdministrative Rationalization and the Reorientation of Government Behavior - Dali YangCooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation - Bruce DicksonAdaptive Informal Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change in China - Kellee TsaiThe Erosion of Communist Party Control over Lawmaking in China - Murray Scot TannerVOLUME 2: FORMS OF DISCIPLINE AND CONTROLThe Structural Strains of China′s Socio-legal System: A Transition to Formal Legalism? - Jieli LiPaternalist Terror: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and Regime Consolidation in the People′s Republic of China, 1950-1953 - Julia StraussWhat the Cultural Revolution Was, and Why It Happened - Lynn WhitePostrevolutionary Mobilization in China: The One-Child Policy Reconsidered - Tyrene WhiteReformed Migration Control and New Targeted People: China′s Hukou System in the 2000s - Fei-Ling WangOrganized Dependency and Cultures of Authority in Chinese Industry - Andrew WalderGoverning Urban China: Labour, Welfare, and the Danwei - David BrayToward a Government of the Contract: Policing in the Era of Reform - Michael DuttonShuanggui and Extralegal Detention in China - Flora SapioThe ′Re-education through Labour′ System in China′s Legal Reform - Zou KeyuanThe Chemistry of a Conflict: The Chinese Government and the Falun Gong - Patsy RahnDilemmas of ′Thought Work′ in Fin-de-Siècle China - Daniel LynchShaping the Internet in China: Evolution of Political Control over Network Infrastructure and Content - Eric Harwit and Duncan ClarkThe Chinese Legal System: Continuing Commitment to the Primary of State Power - Pitman PotterVOLUME 3: LOCAL AUTONOMY UNDER CENTRAL AUTHORITYThe Reach of the State: A Comparative-Historical Approach to the ′Modernization′ of Local Government in China - Vivienne ShueThe ′State of the State′ - Richard Baum and Alexei ShevchenkoFrom Local Experiments to National Policy: The Origins of China′s Distinctive Policy Process - Sebastian HeilmannPlaying to the Provinces: Deng Xiaoping′s Political Strategy of Economic Reform - Susan ShirkThe Evolution of Central-Provincial Fiscal Relations in China, 1971-1984: The Formal System - Michel Oksenberg and James TongFiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism - Jean OiCentral-Local Relations in an Era of Fiscal Decline: The Paradox of Fiscal Decentralization in Post-Mao China - Christine WongFederalism Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China - Gabriella Montinola, Yingyi Qian, and Barry WeingastCompetitive Governments, Fiscal Arrangements, and the Provision of Local Public Infrastructure in China: A Theory-driven Study of Gujiao Municipality - Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Feng XingyuanTowards a Non-Zero-Sum Interactive Framework of Spatial Politics: The Case of Centre-Province in Contemporary China - Linda Chelan LiThe Institutional Logic of Collusion among Local Governments in China - Xueguang ZhouRemaking the Communist Party-State: The Cadre Responsibility System at the Local Level in China - Maria EdinPrincipals and Secret Agents: Central versus Local Control Over Policing and Obstacles to ′Rule of Law′ in China - Murray Scot Tanner and Eric GreenChina′s ′Soft′ Centralization: Shifting Tiao/Kuai Authority Relations - Andrew MerthaThe Blind Man and the Elephant: Analysing the Local State in China - Anthony SaichVOLUME 4: SHIFTING IDENTITIES AND THE QUEST FOR NATIONAL UNITYChina: Erratic State, Frustrated Society - Lucian PyeEthnic Classification Writ Large: The 1954 Yunnan Province Ethnic Classification Project and its Foundations in Republican-Era Taxonomic Thought - Thomas MullaneyBetween Alterity and Identity: New Voices of Minority People in China - Nimrod BaranovitchIslam in China: Accommodation or Separatism? - Dru GladneyChina′s Strategic Vulnerability to Minority Separatism in Tibet - Barry SautmanConstructing the State in the Tibetan Diaspora - Ann FrechetteChina′s Provincial Identities: Reviving Regionalism and Reinventing ′Chineseness′ - Tim OakesHèunggóngyàhn: On the Past, Present, and Future of Hong Kong Identity - Gordon MathewsFrom Nationalism to Nationalizing: Cultural Imagination and State Formation in Postwar Taiwan - Allen ChunDiaspora, Identity and Cultural Citizenship: The Hakkas in ′Multicultural Taiwan′ - Lijung WangRealpolitik Nationalism: International Sources of Chinese Nationalism - Lei GuangHow to Understand China: The Dangers and Opportunities of Being a Rising Power - William CallahanNationalism and Transnationalism in the Globalisation of China - Prasenjit DuaraModernity as History: Post-revolutionary China, Globalization and the Question of Modernity - Arif Dirlik