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“On the Sixth Generation: Preliminary Speculations about Chinese Politics after Xi,”
Journal of Contemporary China
. Mar 2020, Vol. 29 Issue 122, p253-265.
“Xi Jinping’s ‘New Normal’: Quo Vadis?”
Journal of Chinese Political Science
, 22: 3 (September 2017), 429-446.
“Socialist Reform and Sino-Soviet Convergence,” in Richard Baum, ed.,
Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China
(New York: Taylor & Francis, 2016), Chapter 2.
“Asian Alliances: Chinese and Japanese Experiences Compared,”
Asian Perspective
, vol. 38, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1-31.
“China's New Asia Policy,”
China: An International Journal,
Volume 12, Number 2, August 2014, pp. 113-131.
(with Kun-Chin Lin), “Multiple Institutional Templates for Corporate China: The Evolution of Industrial Networks during Marketization,” in Hong Yung Lee, ed.,
A comparative Study of East Asian Captalism
(Berkeley: Institute for East Asian Studies, 2014), pp. 205-237.
(with Yu-Shan Wu), “What Drives the Cross-Strait Rapprochement? Political Competition, Globalization, and the Strategic Triangle,” in Wen-hsin Yeh, ed.,
Mobile Horizons: Dynamics across the Taiwan Strait
(Berkeley: China Research Monograph, 2013), pp. 25-48.
“Japan, China, Russia, and the American ‘Pivot’: A Triangular Analysis,” in Tadashi Inoguchi & G. John Ikenberry, eds.,
The Troubled Triangle: Economic and Security Concerns for the United States, Japan, and China
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 185-2013.
“On Informal Politics in East Asia,” in Thomas Christiansen and Christine Neuhold,
International Handbook on Informal Governmance
(Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. 154-174.
“Political and Cultural Roots of Sino-Russian Partnership,” in Robert Bedeski and Niklas Swanstroem,
Eurasia’s Ascent in Energy and Geopolitics: Rivalry or Partnership for China, Russia and Central Asia?
(New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 16-34.
“China and the Two Koreas: A Triangular Perspective,”
Korean Journal of Security Affairs
, 17: 2 (December 2012), pp. 23-39.
“Uniting Korea: Enduring Dream, Elusive Reality,” in Jinwook Choi, ed.,
US-China Relations and Korean Unification
(Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification, 2011), pp. 100-129.
“The Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership: The End of Rivalry?” in Sumit Ganguly and William R. Thompson,
Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-Level Games
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp. 118-145.
“Jiexi liangan guanxi de jiujie,” in Bao Zonghe and Wu Yushan, eds.,
Zhongxin jianshi zhengbian zhong de liangan guanxi lilun [revisiting theories on cross-strait relations]
(Taipei: Academic Sinica, 2009), pp. 1-14.
“China’s New Internationalism,” in Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne, eds.,
China Turns to Multiateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security
(New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 21-35; republished in Shiping Hua, ed., “Taiwan as a Factor in China's Quest for National Identity,”
Journal of Contemporary China
, vol. 15, no. 49 (Nov. 2006), pp. 671-687.
“Taiwan's Aim-Inhibited Quest for Identity and the China Factor,”
Journal of Asian and African Studies
, vol. 40, nos., 1-2 (February/April 2005), pp. 71-91.
“Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development,”
China Quarterly
, 176 (December 2003), pp. 903-926; also published in Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo and Ramon H. Myers, eds.,
The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 10-33.
“The Emerging Northeast Asian Regional Order,” in Samuel S. Kim, ed.,
The International Relations of Northeast Asia
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), pp. 331-363.
“Three Visions of Chinese Political Reform,”
Journal of Asian and African Studies
, 38: 4-5 (December 2003), pp. 347-376.
“Chinese Leadership Succession to the Fourth Generation,” in Gang Lin and Xiaobo Hu, eds.,
China After Jiang
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 11-37.
(with William Hurst), “Analysis in Limbo: Contemporary Chinese Politics Amid the Maturation of Reform,”
Issues & Studies
, 38, no. 4/39, no. 1 (December 2002-March 2003), pp. 11-48.
“Modernizing Chinese Informal Politics,” in Jonathan Unger, ed.,
The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang
(Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. 3-38; republished in Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger (eds.),
Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics
, Vol. 2 (London and New York: Routledge Publisher, 2009), pp. 91-123.
“Introduction,” in Woei Lien Chong, ed.,
China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Master Narratives and Post-Mao Counternarratives
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), pp. ix-xix.
“Rethinking China’s Cultural Revolution Amid Reform,” in Chong,
China’s Great
, pp. 3-27.
“East Asia in the ‘New Era’ in World Politics,”
World Politics
, 5 (October 2002), pp. 38-65.
(with Lance Gore), “China Builds a Market Culture,”
East Asia: An International Quarterly
,19: 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 9-51.
“Chinese Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: A Realist Approach,”
Review of Politics
, 63: 3 (Summer 2001), pp. 421-461.
“Strategic Geometry,”
Northwestern Journal of International Affairs
, v. 3 (Winter 2001), pp 21-32.
“The Changing Shape of Elite Power Politics,”
The China Journal
, no. 45 (January 2001), pp. 53-68.
“The Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership,”
Journal of Contemporary China
, 10: 28 (2001), pp. 399-413.
“Reform and Chinese Foreign Policy,” in Bruce J. Dickson & Chien-min Chao, eds.,
Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, & Security
(New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 171-190.
“On the Prospect of an Interim Solution to the China-Taiwan Crisis,”
China Information
, v. 14, n. 1 (2000), pp. 58-69.
(With Liangping Guo), “Zhongguo zhengzhi shichanghua de shengli” [The triumph of political marketization in China,” in Wang Puqu and Xu Xianglin, eds.,
Jingji tizhi zhuanxingzhongde zhengfu zuoyong [The function of politics in a transforming economic system]
(Beijing: Xinhua Publishing Company, 2000), pp. 276-300.
“Globalization and the Asian Financial Crisis,”
Asian Perspective
, v. 23, n. 4 (1999), pp. 45-65; published in revised and expanded form in Samuel S. Kim, ed., East Asian Globalization (New York: Roman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 31-55.
“The Evolution of China’s Taiwan Policy since the Cold War: A Comparative Strategic Analysis,” in Winston Yang and Deborah Brown, eds.,
Across the Taiwan Strait: Exchanges, Conflicts, Negotiations
(Jamaica, NY: St. John’s University, 1999), pp. 31-63.
“Reflections on the Analysis of Political Culture,” in Eberhard Sandschneider, ed.,
The Study of Modern China
(London: Hurst, 1999), pp. 16-30.
(with Lu Xiaobo), “Structural Transformation of the Chinese Danwei: Macropolitical Implications of Micropolitical Change,”
China Studies
, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 111-145.
“Hong Kong Returns to China: The Problem of Political Corruption,”
Asian Journal of Business and Information Systems
, vol. 2, no. 1 (Summer 1997), pp. 53-89.
“Reconstructing China’s Cultural Revolution,”
China Information
, vol. 11, nos. 2-3 (Autumn-Winter 1996-1997), pp. 1- 21.
“The Chinese Cultural Revolution Revisited: The Role of the Nemesis,”
Journal of Contemporary China
, vol. 5, no. 13 (1996), pp. 255-269.
(with Lu Xiaobo), “Personal Politics in the Chinese Danwei under Reform,” Asian Survey, vol. 36, no. 3 (March 1996), pp. 246-268.
“Approaches to the Study of Chinese Politics,”
Issues and Studies
, vol. 32, no. 9 (September 1996), pp. 1-19; republished in Lin Chun, ed.,
China, Vol I: Modernizing the Chinese Polity
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 429-447.
“Bizhao shiye xia di dongya feizhengshi zhengzhi” [Informal politics in East Asia from a comparative perspective],
Zhongguo shehui kexue jikan [Chinese Social Sciences Quarterly]
, Spring 1997, pp. 286-295.
(with Yu-Shan Wu), “The Modernization of Factionalism in Chinese Politics,”
World Politics
, vol. 47, no. 4 (July 1995), pp. 467-495.
“
Chinese Informal Politics,”
The China Journal
, no. 34 (July 1995), pp. 1-35.
“The Politics of Publicity in Reform China,” in Chin-Chuan Lee, ed.,
China’s Media, Media’s China
(Boulder: Westview, 1994), pp. 89-113.
“Crisis at Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China,"
Pacific Affairs
, vol. LXIV, no. 4 (Winter 1992), 529-35.
“
Socialist Reform and Sino-Soviet Convergence,
”
in Richard Baum, ed.,
Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen
(New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 18-37.
“Learning from Trauma: The Cultural Revolution in Post-Mao Politics,” in William A. Joseph, Christine Wong and David Zweig, eds., New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 19-40.
“China's Search for Its Place in the World,” in Brantly Womack, ed.,
Contemporary Chinese Politics in Historical Perspective
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 265-329.
“Patterns of Elite Strife and Succession in Chinese Politics,”
China Quarterly
, no. 123 (September 1990), pp. 405-430.
“China in 1989: The Crisis of Incomplete Reform,”
Asian Survey
, vol. XXX, no. 1 (January 1990), pp. 25-42.
“Soviet Reform and the Prospect of Sino-Soviet Convergence,”
Studies in Comparative Communism
, vol. XXII, nos. 2-3 (Summer/Autumn 1989), pp. 125-138.
“The Tiananmen Massacre,”
Problems of Communism
, no. 38 (September-October 1989), pp. 2-17.
“The Origins of China's Post-Mao Reforms,” in Victor Falkenheim, ed.,
Chinese Politics from Mao to Deng
(New York: Paragon, 1989), pp. 41-65.
“Mao Zedong and the Dilemma of Revolutionary Gerontocracy,” in Angus McIntyre, ed.,
Aging and Political Leadership
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
“China's 'Opening to the Outside World': The Cultural Dimension,”
Journal of Northeast Asian Studies
, vol. VI, no. 2 (Summer 1987), pp. 3-24.
“Public and Private Interests and the Participatory Ethic in China,” in Victor C. Falkenheim,
Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987), pp. 17-45.
“The International Consequences of Reform,” in Gail Lapidus and Jonathan Haslam, eds.,
Reforming Socialist Systems: The Chinese and Soviet Experiences
(Berkeley: Joint Program on Soviet International Behavior, 1987), pp. 38-41.
“Mao Zedong: Ten Years After,”
The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs
, no. 16 (July 1986), pp. 113-119.
“Party Rectification in Post-Mao China,” in Yu-ming Shaw, ed.,
Mainland China: Politics, Economics, and Reform
(Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1986), pp. 103-121.
“The Structure of the Chinese State,” in Yu-ming Shaw, ed., Power and Policy in the in the People's Republic of China (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1985), pp. 70-92.
“Ideology and Organization in Post-Mao China,” in King-yuh Chang, ed.,
Perspectives on Development in Mainland China
(Boulder: Westview, 1984); published in revised form in
Asian Survey
, XXIV, no. 3 (March l984), pp. 349-370.
“Political Development in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1981,” in Hongdah Chiu, ed.,
China: Seventy Years After the 1911 Hsin-Hai Revolution
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984), pp. 86-119.
“The Past Recaptured,”
China Quarterly
, March 1984, pp. 126-135.
“The Twelfth Congress of the Communist Party of China,”
China Quarterly
, March 1983, pp. 108-125.
“The Comparative Analysis of Political Culture,”
Amerikastudien (Frankfurt/Main)
, vol. XXVII, 1982.
“Radical Ideology and Chinese Political Culture,” in Richard W. Wilson, et al, eds.,
Moral Behavior in Chinese Society
(New York: Praeger, 1981), pp. 126-151.
“The Strategic Triangle: An Elementary Game-Theoretical Analysis,”
World Politics
, vol. XXXIII, no. 4 (July 1981), pp. 485-516; also anthologized in Klaus Knorr, ed.,
Power, Strategy, and Security: A World Politics Reader
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983), pp. 37-68; also published in Philip M. Chen, ed.,
Faces and Phases of Triadic/Triangular Relationships
(Taipei: Asia and the World Institute, 1987).
“Death and Transfiguration: Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Political System,”
Journal of Asian Studies
, vol. IV, no. 3 (May1981), pp. 455-479; also published in Spanish as "Muerte y Transfiguracion: La Rehabilitacion de Liu Shaoqi y la Politica China Contemporanea," Estudios de Asia y Africa, vol. XVII, no. 3 (Julio-Setiembre, 1982), pp. 369-418.
“The Formal Structure of Central Chinese Political Institutions,” in Sidney Greenblatt, et al, eds.,
Organizational Behavior in Chinese Society
(New York: Praeger, 1981), pp. 47-75.
“Chinese Communist Revisionism in Comparative Perspective,”
Studies in Comparative Communism
, vol. XIII, no. 1 (Spring 1980), pp. 3-40.
“The Radical Critique of Political Interest, 1966-1978,”
Modern China
, vol. VI, no. 4 (October 1980), pp. 363-396.
“Rectification and Purge in Chinese Politics,”
Pacific Affairs
, vol. LIII, no. 3 (Fall 1980), pp. 509-515.
“Bases of Power in Chinese Politics: A Theory and an Analysis of the Fall of the ‘Gang of Four’,”
World Politics
, vol. XXXI (October 1978), pp. 26-61.
“‘Line Struggle’ in Theory and Practice: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Reconsidered,”
China Quarterly
, no. 72 (December 1977).
“Mao Tse-tung: The Man and the Symbol,”
China Quarterly
, no. 26 (January-February 1977), pp. 57-63.
“Political Culture and Political Symbolism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis,”
World Politics
, vol. XXIX, no. 4 (July 1977), pp. 552-584.
“The Succession Drama in China,”
Problems of Communism
, vol. XXVI, no. 1 (January-February 1977), pp. 56-63.
“Thought Reform and Cultural Revolution: An Analysis of the Symbolism of Chinese Polemics,”
American Political Science Review
, vol. LXXI (March 1977), pp. 67-85.
“The World Food Problem: A Political Analysis,” in Gerald and Lou Ann Garvey, eds.,
International Resource Flows
(Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1977), pp. 21-37.
“Power and Personality in China,” with comments by Herbert Kupper, Robert Bedeski, and Yung Wei;
Studies in Comparative Communism
, vol. VII, nos. 1 -2 (Spring/Summer 1974), pp. 21-50.
“Revolution and Reconstruction in Contemporary Chinese Bureaucracy,”
Journal of Comparative Administration
, vol. V, no. 4 (February 1974), pp. 443-487.
“Mass Line and Mass Criticism in China,”
Asian Survey
, vol. XIII, no. 8 (August 1973), pp. 772-793.
“The Structural Evolution of ‘Criticism and Self-Criticism,’”
China Quarterly
, no. 56 (October/December 1973), pp. 708-730.
“The German NPD: A Psycho-Sociological Analysis of ‘Neo-Naziism,’”
Comparative Politics
, vol. II, no. 1 (August 1969), pp. 79-110.
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