China Program at APARC - Publications

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.

Book cover for Andrew Walder's "Civil War in Guangxi," showing a photograph of mountains and a historical image of prisoners marching.

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In 'Civil War in Guangxi,' Andrew Walder provides a groundbreaking new analysis of one of the most shocking chapters of the Cultural Revolution.

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Journal Articles

Publications

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Generating a Violent Insurgency

After COVID-19: Rebooting Business in China

疫情之后: 企业的重振与美中经济关系前景

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

A real national security budget will keep the peace

Challenges in the Process of China’s Urbanization

Uneasy Partnerships: China’s Engagement with Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform

ASEAN between China and America: Is It Time to Try Horsing the Cow?

President Trump's Asia Inbox

A Silk Road for the Twenty-First Century?

Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War

Cloaks and Veils: Countervisualizing Cigarette Factories In and Outside of China

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