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Publications

Rigorous and timely scholarship on political, economic, social, and foreign policy challenges in China and U.S.-China relations for the academic community, foreign policy experts, and the interested public.

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.

3D mockup cover of the book 'The Logic of Governance in China'

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'The Logic of Governance in China,' by Xueguang Zhou, analyzes how China's centralized political system maintains governance.

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Military Competition With China: Harder Than the Cold War?

The Wisdom and Efficacy of Engagement: Objectives, Assumptions, and Impacts

Chinese Bureaucracy Through Three Lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian

Filtered Life

Chinese Intentions in the South China Sea

A Decade of Upheaval

The Precarious State of Cross-Strait Deterrence

The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy

Generating a Violent Insurgency

疫情之后: 企业的重振与美中经济关系前景

After COVID-19: Rebooting Business in China

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

China’s Challenges: Now It Gets Much Harder

Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution

Forty Years of Formal—but Not yet Normal—Relations

The Impact of Class Labels on Life Chances in China

American Foreign Policy in Transition: From Cold War Consensus to Controversy and Confusion

Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County

Mortality In Rural China Declined As Health Insurance Coverage Increased, But No Evidence The Two Are Linked

Is the War Danger in Korea Real?

The North Korean Missile Test Pushes Xi and Putin Closer

Celebrating the First 10 Years of the China Program

Office of the Director of National Intelligence: From Pariah and Piñata to Managing Partner

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