I am a professor of Political Science at CUNY Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. This website documents my major publications.

Books

“Ranking Scholarly Publishers in Political Science.” PS April 2011.

Academic Articles

• “‘Islamization’ and Crackdown in Ningxia: Another Xinjiang?” Journal of Contemporary China, Nov. 2022.
• “Corruption in China.” Political Science section, Oxford Bibliographies. With Yuan Beishun, 2021.
• “Debating ethnic governance in China.” Journal of Contemporary China. Vol. 28.115 (Jan. 2019): 118-32.
• “Does Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign Improve Regime Legitimacy?" With Yuan Baishun, Modern China Studies, 24 (2) (Feb. 2017).
• “Corruption in China.” With Yuan Baishun, Political Science section, Oxford Bibliographies (www.oxfordbibliographies.com). 2017.
• “Ethnic, sectarian, or localized grievances? On Wang Lixiong's analysis of Tibetan self-immolation.” Asian Ethnicity 14 (03) 2013: 376-380.
• “The Tibet Issue through the Looking Glass of Taiwan.” Asian Ethnicity, 12(03) 2011: 337-353.
• “Does democracy check corruption? Comparative Insights on China and India.” With Michael Johnston, Comparative Politics, July 2009.
• “Cadre Recruitment and Corruption: What Goes Wrong?” Crime, Law and Social Change, 41(1) Feb. 2008.
• “The Politics of Conceptualizing Corruption in Contemporary China.” Crime, Law and Social Change, 35 (1) April 2001: 245-270.
• “Reform, State, and Post-Communist Corruption: Is Corruption Less Destructive in China than in Russia?” Comparative Politics, 32 (1) Oct. 1999: 1-20.
• “Ideology and the Demise or Maintenance of Soviet-type Regimes: perspectives on the Chinese case.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies (formerly Studies in Comparative Communism, 28 (3) Sept./1995: 319-38.
• “The Chinese and Soviet Reassessment of Socialism: the Theoretical Bases of Reform and Revolution in Communist Regimes.” In Communist and Post-Communist Studies (formerly Studies in Comparative Communism, 27/1 March/1994: 39-58.
• “The Chinese Protests of 1989: the Issue of Corruption.” Asian Survey, 31 (8), Aug. 1991: 762-82.

• “The Roots of China’s Ethnic Conflict.” In David Shambaugh ed., The China Reader (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016): 226-235.
• “The Political of Conceptualizing Corruption in Reform China.” In Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, ed., Critical Readings on the Chinese Communist Party (Brill, 2016): 1215-1241.
• “Cadre Recruitment and Corruption: What Goes Wrong?” In Ting Gong and Stephen Ma eds., Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity (Routeledge, 2009).
• “Would Democracy Remedy China’s Corruption Problem? Insights from China and India.” In Helen Lansdowne and Guoguang Wu, eds., Socialist China, Capitalist China: Social Tension and Political Transition under Economic Globalization (Routeledge, 2009)
• “The Changing Communist Party and the Rise of China.” The Rise of China and Theories of Comparative and International Politics , Chu Yun-han et al. meds. (Taipei: 2006)

• “China’s Crony Capitalism: More Than Property Rights.” Asia Policy (NBR), Jan. 2017.
• “The Roots of China’s Ethnic Conflict.” Current History, Sept. 2014.
• “Corruption: East Asia.” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University, 2008).
• “Corruption, Growth and Political Reform: the Chinese Enigma.” Current History, Sept. 2005.
• “Corruption and Democratic Governance: the Asian Paradox.” Occasional Paper of the Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. #69, 1997, pp. 1-7.
• “Hsinchu Industrial Park and Taiwan’s High-tech Development.” Chapter in Lan Ziyong and Yu Bin eds., Taiwan in Transition (Hong Kong: the Social Science Service Center, 1994), pp. 123-134.

For Perspectives on Politics (PS), review for following three books:

• Rethinking Chinese Politics. By Joseph Fewsmith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Fractured China: How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise. By Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision. By Ban Wang. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

For Pacific Affairs:

• China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. By Yuen Yuen Ang (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Vol. 95.4 (Dec. 2022).
• Securitizing China’s Northwestern Frontier: Security and Identity in Xinjiang. By David Tobin (Cambridge University Press 2020). 95.1 (March 2022).

For the Journal of Asian Studies:

• Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. By James A. Millward (Columbia University Press 2021). Vol. 81.4 (Nov. 2022).

For the China Journal:

• Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today’s China. By Desmond Shum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021. 87 (Jan. 2022).

Media Articles

• “Wary of Western Intentions.” In “Can U.S. Colleges Defend Academic Freedom?” New York Times, 2011.
• “Balancing Freedom With Discipline.” In “Is Extreme Parenting Effective?” New York Times, 2011.
• “Millennia of Multiethnic Contradictions.” In “China’s Changing Views on Race,” New York Times, 2009.
• “My Han Relatives’ View From Xinjiang.” In “What Should China Do About the Uighurs?” New York Times, 2009.
• “A Sichuan Family and Tibet’s Future.” New York Times, 2008.

Chinese Articles

• “海看快评。”《海外看世界》。系列评论。十四篇，14 articles in series（2018-2020）
• “美国政府为何没有新疆政策？”《领导者》总55期，2013年12月；转载于《民族社会学研究通讯》（北京大学）153 期 （2014年2月）
• “冷战后欧美跨界族群的研究以及对中国的启示。”《民族社会学研究通讯》（北京大学）148期（2013年11月）
• “从发达国家的族群政策和经验，看中国民族问题的出路。”《领导者》总第54期，2013年10月；转载于《民族社会学研究通讯》（北京大学）151期 （2014年1月）
• “藏人因何自焚？”《领导者》总第51期，2013年4月；转载于《民族社会学研究通讯》（北京大学）第139期（2013年7月）
• “ ‘肯定性行动’ 后的美国大学录取: 择优与多元之间的平衡。”《民族社会学研究通讯》（北京大学），第110期（2012年4月）
• “累赘还是隐患?——评估中国族群问题的危机度。” 共识网－《领导者》总第39期（2011年4月）；转载于《民族社会学研究通讯》（北京大学）第120期（2012年9月）
• “以台湾为镜，看西藏问题。”《领导者》总第39期（2011年4月）
• “如何改善中国的国际话语权。”《领导者》（2009年10月）