Jean Oi

Corporate Restructuring and Governance in East Asia
Township finance and fiscal politics
Economic Development and Political Change in China: village elections and grassroots governance
Comparative Politics: Chinese Politics
Political Economy
Institutions and Transitional Systems
State and Development

Director, Stanford China Program
Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Center for East Asian Studies

• Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University, 2005-2010
  
• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University, 2004-05
  
• Stanford Cap and Gown Honorary, 2003
  
• William Haas Professorship in Chinese Politics, January 2001
  
• Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Stanford University, 1999-2000
  
• Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar, Stanford University, 1998-2001

Undergraduate Courses
Chinese Politics
The Rise of Industrial Asia

Graduate Courses
The Political Economy of Reform in China
Political Reform in China
Approaches to Chinese Politics
Methods for Social Science Research in China

Books

At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks and State-building in Republican Shanghai, edited with Nara Dillon.  Stanford University Press, forthcoming, December 2007.

Rural China Takes Off:  Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform. University of California Press, 1999.  (Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 1999).

Property Rights and Economic Reform in China.  Stanford University Press, 1999, editor (with Andrew Walder).  

State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government.  University of California Press, 1989.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Chinese Firms Under Transformation:  Corporate Restructuring, Employee Layoff and Manager Turnover in 1990s,” in Harland Prechel, ed., Politics and Neoliberalism:  Structure, Process and Outcome.  Oxford:  Elsevier JAI, 2007, pp. 167-200 (with Lu Zheng).

"Fiscal Crisis in China’s Townships:  Causes and Consequences,” in Merle Goldman and Elizabeth Perry, eds., Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China. Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 75-96 (with Zhao Shukai).

“Corporate Restructuring and Social Security in State Owned Enterprises:  Lessons from China,” in David Kelly and Ramkishen Rajan, eds., India-China: Managing Globalization.  New Jersey, Singapore, and London:  World Scientific Publishing Co., 2006, pp. 147-166.

“Patterns of Corporate Restructuring in China:  Political Constraints on Privatization,” China Journal (January 2005), pp. 115-136.

“Costs and Benefits of Rural Industrialization:  A Reassessment,” paper presented at the International Conference on Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance in China During the Reform Era, National Chengchi University, Chinese Association of Political Science,  Center for China Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2-3, 2004 forthcoming in conference volume.

“Guojia shehuizhuyi zhihou:  Zhongguo qiye gaizhide zhengzhi yueshu” (After State Socialism:  Political Constraints on Corporate Restructuring in China),  Ershiyi Shiji (Twenty First Century), No. 84, August 2004 (in Chinese), pp. 15-23.

 “Old Problems for New Leaders:  Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China,” in Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo and Ramon Myers, eds., The New Chinese Leadership:  Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress.   Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004, 141-155.

“Realms of Freedom in Post-Mao China,” William Kirby, ed., Realms of Freedom in Modern China.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2004, pp. 264-284.

“Bending without Breaking, The Adaptability of Chinese Political Institutions,” in Nicholas Hope, ed., How Far Across the River?  Chinese Policy Reform at the Millennium.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 450-468.

"Elections and Power:  The Locus of Decision Making in Chinese Villages," China Quarterly, No. 162 (June 2000), pp. 513-539, with Scott Rozelle.  Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Ramon Myers, eds., Elections and Democracy in Greater China (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 149-175."Two Decades of Rural Reform in China:  An Overview and Assessment," China Quarterly No. 159 (September 1999), pp. 616-628. Reprinted in Richard Edmonds, ed., The People’s Republic of China After 50 Years.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 54-66.

"Property Rights in the Chinese Economy:  Contours of the Process of Change," in Jean Oi and Andrew Walder, eds., Property Rights and Economic Reform in China Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1999, pp. 1-26, with Andrew Walder.

"The Evolution of Local State Corporatism," in Andrew Walder, ed.,  Zouping in Transition:  The Process of Reform in Rural North China.  Cambridge, Mass: .Harvard University Press, 1998, pp. 35-61.

"The Collective Foundation of Rapid Rural Industrialization," in Eduard Vermeer, Frank N. Pieke, and Woei Lien Chong, eds., Cooperative and Collective in China's Rural Development:  Between State and Private Interest.  New York:  M. E. Sharpe, 1998, pp. 93-109.

"Economic Development, Stability, and Democratic Village Self-Governance," in Maurice Brosseau, Suzanne Pepper, and Tsang Shu-ki, eds., China Review 1996.  Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996, pp. 125-144.

“The Role of the Local State in China's Transitional Economy," China Quarterly (December 1995) No. 144, pp. 1132-1150; reprinted in Andrew Walder, ed., China=s Transitional Economy.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press (1996), pp. 170-187; reprinted in Gordon Smith and David Arter, eds., The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government.  Aldershot, England:  Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

"Reform and Urban Bias in China," The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 29 No. 4 (July 1993), pp. 129-148; reprinted in Ashutosh Varshney, ed., Beyond Urban Bias.  London:  Frank Cass (1993); reprinted in Bryan Roberts, Charles Wood, and Bob Cushing, eds., The Sociology of Development.  England:  Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995.

"Rational Choices and the Attainment of Wealth and Power in China's Countryside," in David S. G. Goodman and Beverley Hooper, eds., China Quiet Revolution:  New Interactions Between State and Society.  Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1994, pp. 64-79.

"Chinese Agriculture:  Modernization, but at What Costs?," in Zhiling Lin and Thomas Robinson, eds., The Chinese and Their Future:  Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong. Lanham, MD: The AEI Press, 1994, pp.153-171.

"Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism in China," World Politics, Vol. 45, No. 1 (October 1992), pp. 99-126. Translated and published in Gang Yang and Cui Zhiyuan, eds.,  Zhongguo gaigede zhengzhi jingjixue (The Political Economy of Chinese Reforms).  Hong Kong:  Oxford University Press, 1997.

"Mobilization and Participation:  The Case of China," in Myron Cohen, ed., Guide to Asian Case Studies in the Social Sciences.  National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992, pp. 257-266.

"Shandong," in R. Bin Wong and Pierre Etienne Will (eds.), Nourish the People:  State Civilian Granaries in China, 1650-1850.  Center for Chinese Studies.  Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies.  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan. 1992, pp. 321-388, with Pierre-Etienne Will.

"The Fate of the Collective After the Commune," in Deborah Davis and Ezra Vogel, eds., Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen:  The Impact of Reform.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard Contemporary China Series No. 7, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1990, pp. 15-36.

"Market Reforms and Corruption in Rural China," Studies in Comparative Communism, Vol. 22, No. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 1989), pp. 221-233, revised and reprinted as "Partial Reform and Corruption in Rural China," in Richard Baum, ed., China's Post-Mao Reforms:  A Comparative Assessment.  New York:  Routledge, 1991, pp. 143-161. 

"The Chinese Village, Inc.," in Bruce Reynolds, ed., Chinese Economic Policy.  New York:  Paragon Press, 1988, pp. 67-87.

"Commercializing China's Rural Cadres," Problems of Communism, September-October 1986, pp. 1-15.

"Peasant Grain Marketing and State Procurements:  China's Grain Contracting System," China Quarterly, No. 106 (June 1986), pp. 272-290.

"Peasant Households Between Plan and Market:  Cadre Control Over Agricultural Inputs," Modern China, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 1986), pp. 230-250.

"Communism and Clientelism:  Rural Politics in China," World Politics, Vol. 32, No. 2 (January 1985), pp. 238-266.

"The Harvest and the Politics of Local Grain Reserves," in Randolph Barker and Beth Rose (eds.), Agricultural and Rural Development in China Today:  Selected Papers from a Cornell University Workshop.  Ithaca:  Program in International Agriculture, Cornell University, 1983, pp. 97-119.

"Politics in China's Local Grain Reserve System," in Edward K.Y. Chen and Steve S.K. Chin, (eds.), Development and Change in China. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1981, pp. 157-177.