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Publications
China Program faculty and fellows regularly author books, book chapters, and articles that appear in peer-reviewed academic journals and acclaimed scholarly and trade presses. We also share the outcomes of our research projects and the proceedings of our conferences, workshops, and policy outreach activities in monographs and other volumes that are disseminated through the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center’s publishing program jointly with Stanford University Press and the Brookings Institution. Browse our publications below.
Publication Spotlight
'A Decade of Upheaval,' by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder, chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution.
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Filter results CloseUnderstanding the Challenge of China’s Rise: Fixing Conceptual Confusion about Intentions
Drivers of Innovation
Entrepreneurship, Education, and Finance in Asia
Firms as Revenue Safety Nets: Political Connections and Returns to the Chinese State
Chinese Grand Strategy
In Strategy in the Contemporary World, edited by John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Jeannie L. Johnson, Oriana Skylar Mastro examines the evolution of Chinese grand strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, its drivers, and its implications.
China’s Grand Strategy
Oriana Skylar Mastro reviews Rush Doshi’s book The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
China’s Local Government Debt: The Grand Bargain
Nuclear Deterrence and the US-China Strategic Relationship
From Alliances, Nuclear Weapons and Escalation: Managing Deterrence in the 21st Century, edited by Stephan Frühling and Andrew O’Neil, published 2021 by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Accelerating Decarbonization in China and USA through Bilateral Collaboration
Military Competition With China: Harder Than the Cold War?
The Wisdom and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts
Chapter from Engaging China:Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations, Anne F. Thurston, ed. Columbia University Press
Chinese Bureaucracy Through Three Lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian
Filtered Life
Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China
Chinese Intentions in the South China Sea
A Decade of Upheaval
The Cultural Revolution in Rural China
The Precarious State of Cross-Strait Deterrence
Statement before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “Deterring PRC Aggression Toward Taiwan”
The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy
During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting China’s claims in the South China Sea. This essay evaluates PLA statements, military exercises and operations, and deployment of relevant platforms and weapons in the South China Sea during this period. I leverage Chinese-language sources in addition to my own operational knowledge from over a decade of military experience to provide greater context for these activities.
Generating a Violent Insurgency
China’s Factional Warfare of 1967–1968
After COVID-19: Rebooting Business in China
To explore how business leaders and entrepreneurs in China responded to the COVID-19 lockdown and how they’re planning for the future, the China Program conducted a survey in coordination with the Stanford Center at Peking University and Stanford Business School alumni Christopher Thomas and Xue (Xander) Wu.
疫情之后: 企业的重振与美中经济关系前景
To explore how business leaders and entrepreneurs in China responded to the COVID-19 lockdown and how they’re planning for the future, the China Program conducted a survey in coordination with the Stanford Center at Peking University and Stanford Business School alumni Christopher Thomas and Xue (Xander) Wu.
Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A “Control Rights” Theory
Organizational Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Reflections on the Chinese Bureaucracy and Its Resilience
Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future
Explore our series of multimedia interviews and Q&As with the contributors to this volume:
China’s Challenges: Now It Gets Much Harder
The easy phases of China’s quest for wealth and power are over. After forty years, every one of a set of favorable conditions has diminished or vanished, and China’s future, neither inevitable nor immutable, will be shaped by the policy choices of party leaders facing at least eleven difficult challenges, including the novel coronavirus.
Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution
By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People’s Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that summer everything changed. Mao Zedong called for students to attack intellectuals and officials who allegedly lacked commitment to revolutionary principles. Rebels responded by toppling local governments across the country, ushering in nearly two years of conflict that in places came close to civil war and resulted in nearly 1.6 million dead.
Forty Years of Formal—but Not yet Normal—Relations
Ties between individuals and institutions in the United States and the People’s Republic of China have become broader, deeper, and stronger during the four decades since the establishment of formal diplomatic relations in 1979 and the relationship can no longer be described as fragile. However, it also cannot yet be considered a normal relationship, at least not from the perspective of American citizens, companies, and commentators on international affairs. The relationship between the two largest economies and military powers has many asymmetries.