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.

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"Upstart," by Oriana Skylar Mastro, unveils how China achieved great power status and built it from a weaker resource position in a U.S.-dominated international system.

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Publications

Journal Articles

Alternate Trajectories of the Roles and Influence of China and the United States in Northeast Asia and the Implications for Future Power Configurations

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, in One Step Back? Reassessing an Ideal Security State for Asia 2025, 2011

Books

Publications

Publication Spotlight

China’s Place in U.S. Foreign Policy

Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966–1971

China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed

The United States and China: Same Bed, Different Dreams, Shared Destiny

After State Socialism: The Political Origins of Transitional Recessions

Security Challenges in a Turbulent World: Fewer Enemies, More Challenges, and Greater Anxiety

Foreshocks: Local Origins of Nanjing’s Qingming Demonstrations of 1976

Public Housing into Private Assets: Wealth Creation in Urban China

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2012-2013

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2011-2012

China's Vision of World Order

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2010-2011

Alternate Trajectories of the Roles and Influence of China and the United States in Northeast Asia and the Implications for Future Power Configurations

Going Private in China

The Autumn Harvest: Peasants and Markets in Post-Collective Rural China

Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy: A “Control Rights” Theory

Rethinking Property Rights as a Relational Concept: Access to Financial Resources Among Small and Mid-Sized Firms

The Road to Collective Debt in Rural China: Bureaucracies, Social Institutions, and Public Goods Provision

Local Politics in the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Nanjing Under Military Control

From Control to Ownership: China's Managerial Revolution

Transitions from State Socialism: A Property Rights Perspective

Factions in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Origins of Cultural Revolution Conflict in Nanjing

Aging Asia

Shorenstein APARC Center Overview 2009-2010

Growing Pains

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