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Fateful Decisions: Choices That Will Shape China's Future

Jean C. Oi, Thomas Fingar
2020

Explore our series of multimedia interviews and Q&As with the contributors to this volume: 

Governance Institutions and Organizations International Relations Foreign Policy Health and Medicine Health Care Economic Affairs Education Demographics Education Book
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Journal Article

China’s Challenges: Now It Gets Much Harder

Thomas Fingar, Jean C. Oi
The Washington Quarterly, 2020

The easy phases of China’s quest for wealth and power are over. After forty years, every one of a set of favorable conditions has diminished or vanished, and China’s future, neither inevitable nor immutable, will be shaped by the policy choices of party leaders facing at least eleven difficult challenges, including the novel coronavirus. 

Governance Institutions and Organizations International Relations Diplomacy Health and Medicine Security Society Journal Article
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Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution

Andrew G. Walder,
2019

By May 1966, just seventeen years after its founding, the People’s Republic of China had become one of the most powerfully centralized states in modern history. But that summer everything changed. Mao Zedong called for students to attack intellectuals and officials who allegedly lacked commitment to revolutionary principles. Rebels responded by toppling local governments across the country, ushering in nearly two years of conflict that in places came close to civil war and resulted in nearly 1.6 million dead.

History Book
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Book

脱轨的革命

Andrew G. Walder
2019
International Relations Society Book
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Book

Zouping Revisited: Adaptive Governance in a Chinese County

Jean C. Oi, Jean C. Oi, Steven Goldstein
Stanford University Press, 2018

China has undergone dramatic change in its economic institutions in recent years, but surprisingly little change politically. Somehow, the political institutions seem capable of governing a vastly more complex market economy and a rapidly changing labor force. One possible explanation, examined in Zouping Revisited, is that within the old organizational molds there have been subtle but profound changes to the ways these governing bodies actually work.

Rule of Law Rule of Law Society Book
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