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

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Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement

Unruly Stability: Why China's Regime Has Staying Power

Revolution, Reform, and Status Inheritance: Urban China 1949-1996

Greater China's Quest for Innovation

Ownership, Organization, and Income Inequality: Market Transition in Rural Vietnam

Fiscal Crisis in China's Townships: Causes and Consequences

At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-building in Republican Shanghai

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Chinese Firms Under Transformation: Corporate Restructuring, Employee Layoff and Manager Turnover in 1990s

Water price policy analysis in China: an experimental approach

Investing in China's Rural Infrastructure and Environment

Factional Conflict at Beijing University, 1966-1968

Corporate Restructuring and Social Security in State Owned Enterprises: Lessons from China

Ambiguity and Choice in Political Movements: The Origins of Beijing Red Guard Factionalism

Political Office and Household Wealth: Rural China in the Deng Era

Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, The

Patterns of Corporate Restructuring in China: Political Constraints on Privatization

Tan Lifu: A "Reactionary" Red Guard in Historical Perspective

The Transformation of Contemporary China Studies, 1977-2002

The Party Elite and China's Trajectory of Change

Old Problems for New Leaders: Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China

Realms of Freedom in Post-Mao China

Bending without Breaking, The Adaptability of Chinese Political Institutions

Elite Opportunity in Transitional Economies

Cultural Revolution in the Countryside, The: Scope, Timing and Human Impact

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