Publications

 “Occupational Branches of Japan’s Ruling Party: Building Linkages While Hedging Clientelist Exposure,” Japanese Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

“Discipline Inspections and the Transformation of Party Authority in China’s Banks,” China: An International Journal 21(2): 92-113, May 2023.

“Economic Governance in Xi Jinping’s `New Era’: New Vectors of Party Influence in China’s Financial Sector,” Background Brief, East Asia Institute at National University of Singapore, March 24, 2023.

“Party-Building as Institutional Bricolage: Asserting Authority at the Business Frontier,” China Quarterly 248(S1): 222-243, 2021.

“Globalizing Leninist Institutions: Trends in Overseas Party Building,“ China Brief 21(12): 22-28, June 2021.

“Political Geography of Empire: Chinese Varieties of Local Government,” The Journal of Asian Studies 76(1): 159-184, February 2017.

“A Micro-Geography of State Extractive Power: The Case of Rural China,” co-authored with Hiroshi Sato, Studies in Comparative International Development 51(4): 389-410. December 2016.

Ning Leng, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China, in The China Journal 96, pp.164-166, July 2026.

Xiaobo Lü, Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era, in The China Quarterly, first view, February 2026.

Andrew Walder, Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery, in Pacific Affairs 98, March 2025.

Xiao Ma, Localized Bargaining: The Political Economy of China’s High-Speed Railway Program, in: The China Journal 90, July 2023.

Sascha Klotzbücher, Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Sicht auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China [Long Shadows of the Cultural Revolution: A Trans-generational View on Politics and Emotions in the People's Republic of China], in: China Information 34(2): 297-299., July 2020.

Jean-Luc Domenach, China's Uncertain Future, in: Twentieth-Century China 39(1), January 2014.