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Background: I was born and educated in China. Like many Chinese of my generation, I lost my education during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). I went back to university in 1978 and majored in English literature. After teaching English for three years in Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics, I left China and pursued my graduate degree first at Texas A&M University and then Princeton University. Apart from teaching and doing research, I am involved in educational programs in China. In June 2000, I set up my own non-profit organization US-Asian Entrepreneurs Association to promote entrepreneur exchanges among small business people. I have set up extensive relationships with government officials, entrepreneurs, and business people in China.
Research Interests: My main research areas focus on political economy of East Asia, the dynamics of transition from central planning to markets, Chinese economic development, Chinese business, globalization in East Asia, comparative studies of businesses and Asian entrepreneurship.
Selected Publications:
How The Farmers Changed China: Power of the People (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996).
"Entrepreneurs and Politics in the Chinese Transitional Economy: Political Connections and Rent-seeking," The China Review, (Vol.1, No. 1, Fall, 2001), pp.111-135, With Eun Kyong Choi.
"Power of the Strong? Rural Resistance and Reform in China and Vietnam," China Information, (Vol.XIV, No. 2, 2001) pp.1-29, with Chad Raymond and Mark Selden.
"The Problems of Intellectual Property Debates in Contemporary China," Journal of Contemporary China ( Fall, 1999) pp. 56-68 with Jie Zhuang.
"Women Divided: The Blessing and the Curse of China's Transitional Economy," The Harvard International Review, Winter 1997/1998, pp. 24-28.
"Quiet Politics and Rural Enterprise in Reform China," The Journal of Developing Areas, (July, 1995), Vol. 29, pp. 461-490 (with Lynn White III).
"Chinese Farmers and Economic Reforms," Journal of Contemporary China (Fall, 1994, the Chinese version), No. 4, pp. 29-43.
Courses Taught:
POLs 110 Introduction to Political Science: The goal in this class
is to introduce some basic theories and assumptions about political science.
This course provides students with an accessible and understandable approach
to learning about political systems, human rights, institutions and economics
of nation states. It will also cover topics that ranging from globalization
and media. Several guest speakers will come to the class to talk about
politics in Hawaii and in Asia.
POLs 341 Comparative Politics of Developing Nations: This course
provides students with an accessible and understandable approach to learning
about political development in developing countries. The focus will be
to find out how those different countries have been grappling with the
major forces (globalization and wars) that affected them. An important
goal of this course is to enable students to make the best use of Internet
and World Wide Web to find information about countries of their interest.
POLs 340 Comparative Politics: This course provides students with
an accessible and understandable approach to learning about political
systems, human rights, institutions and economics of seven states. They
are China, Japan, Britain, Russian, the United States, India, and Nigeria.
The focus will be to find out how those different countries have been
grappling with the major forces that affected them. An important goal
of this course is to enable students to make the best use of Internet
and World Wide Web to find information about countries of their interest.
Pols 484: Society and Politics in China (cross listed with Asian studies
484): Few countries have had a more turbulent and dramatic history
in the twentieth century than China. Each of the remarkable events - the
1911 Revolution, the Nationalist Reign, the Communist Triumph, the Great
Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Post-Mao Reform, and the 1989
Tiananmen Rally - first aroused great hope and then caused immense despair
among millions of people in the country. For foreign observers and experts,
China has always surprised them with continuity when they expect change
and change when they expect inertia.
This course is designed to help students make sense of twentieth century
China - its dynamic changes, its lasting political culture, its enduring
struggle for modernization, and its increasing integration with other
parts of the world. We need to understand political thoughts and social
actions by their contexts.
The course will be organized chronologically in order to provide a historical
perspective. Our focus, however, will be on the period in recent Chinese
politics from the Cultural Revolution to the present. Topics to be covered
include the causes of revolutions, social change, the role of institutions
and ideology, political economy and state-society relations. These topics
are relevant to the social sciences in general, not just to the study
of Chinese politics. Such an approach should allow comparisons with experiences
and policies in other developing countries.
The course presupposes no initial knowledge about China, although those
who have been trained in Chinese culture and history are most welcome.
POLs 645c Chinese politics and Development (cross listed with Asian
studies 608): This course is a political economy review of socialist
market reform and globalization in contemporary China.
This course discusses the changing political/economic development with
emphasis on the radical transition between socialist development and market
reform periods. The changing policies within the two periods are examined.
Attendant political economic events such as urbanization, social transformation,
diaspora/re-unification, and globalization are explored.
The course is organized chronologically in order to provide a historical
perspective, in which a key development topic in each policy phase is
singled out for examination. Subjects to be covered include the causes
of revolution, planned dualism, administrative alternatives, ideology
and institution, state-society relations, the linkage between politics
and economy. . The focus is on the in current period Chinese political
economy after the Cultural Revolution. These topics are relevant to the
social sciences in general, but also would allow comparisons with experiences
and policies in other developing countries.
POLs. 640 Comparative Politics: This course seeks to introduce
students to major themes and empirical material in comparative politics.
Students will learn something about a number of actual states. Topics
include political culture, politics of modernization, dependence theory,
theory of the state, theories of rational and moral economy, socialist
transformation, politics of globalization, and women and development.
Although this course is directed toward those who are planning to concentrate
in comparative politics, most of themes to be discussed overlap with other
sub-fields. Thus, the seminar will be useful for those students planning
to concentrate in other areas of the discipline as well.
POls 710 Political Thought (Politics of Genocide): This course
focuses on comparative regimes of terror in Europe, Africa and Asia. We
will discuss regimes of terror that range from the extreme right to the
extreme left n the political spectrum. We will use country cases to illustrate
politics of genocide in the 20th century. They are Germay, the former
Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Rwanda, Vietnam and Communist Kampuchea.
POLs 780 Politics of Regions (Political Economy of East Asia):
East Asia, which was regarded as the model for the fastest economic growth,
is suddenly facing economic crisis. This course introduces students to
basic issues related to the politics of economic development in East Asia.
The class will examine different paradigms that try to explain the success
as well as failures of economic development in a number of states and
regions in East Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong, Vietnam,
and Singapore). Topics include economic policy formation, oligopolistic
competition, corruption, labor and class relations, overseas investment,
migration, consumerism, human rights, urbanization, regional economic
cooperation, and globalization. Although this course is directed toward
those who are planning to concentrate in the politics of economic development
in East Asia, most themes to be discussed overlap with other sub-fields
in social sciences (state/business relations, political sociology, history
and Asian studies).
The development of East Asia today moves so fast that overnight the change
of the government or the fluctuations of new markets can render the most
recent books out of the date. Thus the instructor will invite political
leaders and entrepreneurs in Hawaii and in East Asia to talk about real
issues facing East Asia.
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