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Dr. DAVID ZWEIG April 2010

OFFICE RESIDENCE Division of Social Science 602 Grosvenor House The Hong Kong University of Science 114-120 MacDonnell Road and Technology Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong TEL: (852) 2358-7832 TEL: (852) 2705-9785 FAX: (852) 2335-0014 FAX: (852) 2719-2510 e-mail: [email protected] mobile phone: 852-9665-1345 CITIZENSHIP: Canadian (married with two children) ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT July 2005- Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST July 2002-05 Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST 1999-2001.1 Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University,

Kingston, Ontario 1996-2002 Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, HKUST 1991-1996 Associate Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA. 1986-1990 Assistant Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA. 1985-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario 1982-1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Florida International University, Miami, FL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE Director, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, 2004- Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST, 2006-08 President, Hong Kong Political Science Association, 2008- Member, Social Sciences Advisory Board, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2008- Non-Resident Fellow for China, Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles, CA,

2006-2009 Member, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Forum, 2007- Member, Advisory Committee, U.S.- China Institute, University of Southern California, Los

Angeles, CA, 2007 - Member, Advisory Committee, Universities Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese

University of Hong Kong, 2002- Member, Advisory Board, Sino-Judaic Institute, 2008- Member, Executive Committee, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 1989-1992 Member, Executive Committee, Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies (JCAPS), York

University-University of Toronto, 1986-87.


PUBLICATIONS Books and Monographs: Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages (Ithaca, NY: Cornell

Series in Political Economy, Cornell University Press, 2002). Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era (Armonk, NY:

M.E. Sharpe, 1997). China's Brain Drain to the United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars

in the 1990s, with Chen Changgui (Berkeley: Institute for East Asian Studies, China Research Monograph Series, 1995).

Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989). Edited Books and Special Issues of Journals: “Special issue—Migration and Mobility,” co-editor with Don Devoretz, Pacific Affairs, Vol.

81, No. 2 (September 2008): 171-258. Globalization and China’s Reforms, edited with Chen Zhimin (Routledge, 2007), published in

paper in 2008. “Special Issue—Transnationalism and Migration: Chinese People on the Move,” Journal of

International Migration and Integration, co-editor with Don Devoretz, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Fall 2006): 407-516.

国际政治经济学与中国的全球化 (International Political Economy and China’s Globalization; in Chinese), edited with Chen Zhimin (Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House, 2006).

China's Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989, co-edited with Suzanne Ogden, Kathleen Hartford, and Lawrence Sullivan (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992).

New Perspectives on China's Cultural Revolution, co-edited with William A. Joseph and Christine Wong (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Contemporary China Series, Harvard University Press, 1991).

Articles in Refereed Journals, Refereed Volumes or High-Impact Magazines: “Images of the World: Studying Abroad and Chinese Attitudes towards International Affairs,”

with HAN Donglin, The China Quarterly (Summer 2010). “A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,” with

Ye Shulan, Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 17, no. 55 (2008). “Redefining the ‘Brain Drain’: China’s Diaspora Option,” with Chung Siu-Fung and Han

Donglin, Science, Technology and Society, Vol.13, No.1 (2008): 1-33. “Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with Chung

Siu Fung, Journal of Contemporary China (Fall 2007): 25-45. “Rewards of Technology: Explaining China’s Reverse Migration,” (with Chung Siu Fung,

and Wilfried Vanhonacker), Journal of International Migration and Integration, Volume 7, No. 4 (Fall 2006): 449-471.

“A descriptive study of the marketing practices of Chinese private entrepreneurs,” (with Wilfried Vanhonacker and Chung Siu Fung), Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 19, No. 2 (2007): 182-198.

“Learning to Compete: China’s Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain,” International Labour Review, vol. 145, nos. 1-2 (2006): 65-90.

“China’s Global Hunt for Energy,” Foreign Affairs (with Bi Jianhai), Vol. 84, No. 5 (September-October 2005): 25-38.

“Globalization and transnational human capital: overseas and returnee scholars to China,” with Stan Rosen and Chen Changgui, The China Quarterly, 179 (September 2004): 735-757.


“The Human Dimensions of Pollution Policy Implementation: air quality in rural China,” with William P. Alford, Robert P. Weller, Leslyn Hall, Karen R. Polenske, and Yuanyuan Shen, Journal of Contemporary China, 11, 32 (2002): 495-513.

“Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Informal Politics in Greater China,” in Peaceworks, United States Institute of Peace Working Papers (July 2002).

“The Stalled “Fifth Wave:” Zhu Rongji’s Reform Package of 1998-2000,” Asian Survey (March-April 2001).

“Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions, and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management Training Centres in China,” Pacific Affairs, vol. 73, no. 2 (July 2000): 209-232.

"Distortions in the Opening: `Segmented Deregulation' and Weak Property as Explanations for China's `Zone Fever' of 1992-1993," USC Seminar Series No. 14, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.

"Rural People, The Politicians, and Power," The China Journal, no. 38 (July 1997): 153-168. "To Return or Not to Return? Politics vs. Economics in China's Brain Drain to the

U.S.," Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 92-125.

"'Developmental Communities' on China's Coast: The Impact of Trade, Investment, and Transnational Alliances," Comparative Politics, vol. 27, no. 3 (April 1995): 253-274.

"Internationalizing China's Countryside: The Political Economy of Rural Exports," The China Quarterly, No. 128 (December 1991): 716-741.

"Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy," in M. David Lampton & Kenneth Lieberthal, eds, Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision Making in Post-Mao China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 334-363.

"Patrons, Clients, and the Exploitation of the Chinese Peasantry: A Review Essay," Peasant Studies, Vol. 18, no. 1 (Fall 1990): 39-51.

"A Sinologist's Observations on North Korea," Journal of Northeast Asian Studies (Fall 1989): 62-82.

"Context and Content in Policy Implementation: Household Contracts and Decollectivization, 1977-1983," M. David Lampton, ed., Policy Implementation in Post-Mao China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), pp. 255-283.

"From Village to City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations in China," International Regional Science Review, Vol. 11, No. l (1987): 43-58.

David Zweig, Kathleen Hartford, James Feinerman, and Jianxu Deng, "Law, Contracts and Economic Modernization: Lessons from the Recent Chinese Rural Reforms," Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol. 23 (Summer 1987): 319-364.

"Prosperity and Conflict in Rural China," The China Quarterly, 105 (March 1986): 1-18. "Strategies of Policy Implementation: Policy 'Winds' and Brigade Accounting in Rural

China, 1968-1978," World Politics, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2 (January 1985): 267-293. "Opposition to Change in Rural China: The System of Responsibility and People's

Communes," Asian Survey, Vol. XXIII, No. 7 (July 1983): 879-900. "The Peita Debate on Education and the Fall of Teng Hsiao-p'ing," The China Quarterly, 73

(March 1978): 140-158. Other Journal Articles, Chapters in Edited Volumes or Online Magazines: “China’s Political Economy: An Economic Superpower in the Making?” in William A.

Joseph, ed., Chinese Politics (London: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. “The Rise of a New ‘Trading Nation’,” in Lowell Dittmer and George Yu, eds., China and

the Third World: (Lynne Rienner, 2010), pp. “"Sea turtles" or “Seaweed"? The employment of overseas returnees in China,” with HAN

Donglin, in Christiane Kuptsch, ed., The Internationalization of Labour Markets (Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, forthcoming).

“’Resource Diplomacy’” Under Hegemony: Foreign Policy ‘Triangularism’ and Sino-American Energy Competition in the 21st Century,” Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles (forthcoming in 2010).


“To the Courts or to the barricades: can new political institutions manage rural conflict?” in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society, 3nd Edition: Change, conflict and resistance (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2010), pp. (the paper was significantly revised and updated).

“港归派:学子回国调查—香港办教育产业获得好评” 与廖美香, 信报财经月刊, 第 393 期, 2009 年报 12 月号, 6-15 页.

“海归还是海待? 海外回国留学生的就业问题研究” (’Sea Turtle’ or ‘Kelp’? Research on the problems of Employment for Returned Overseas Chinese Students), with Han Donglin, in 王辉耀, 苗丹国, 程希, 编, 中国留学人才发展报告团 2009 (Report on the Development of Chinese Overseas Educated Talents; 北京:机械工业出版社, 2009), 279-294.

Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), “Introduction: Dilemmas of the Post-Revolutionary Struggle,” pp. 1-15, and “Conclusion: The Failure of Agrarian Radicalism,” pp. 190-201, republished in Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger (eds), Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics, Vol. 1 (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp.281-306.

“香港地產商把中國地產便黃金” (Hong Kong property developers turn Chinese land into gold”), 与廖美香写, (with Amy Liu) 信报财经月刊，(Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly），第 383 期，2009 年 2 月号 (February 2009): 6-16.

“A Limited Engagement: Mainland Returnees from Canada,” Research Report, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, December 19, 2008.

“香港作为内地教育的窗口，”(Hong Kong as an educational window for domestic China), 与廖美香写, (with Amy Liu) 信报财经月刊，(Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly），第 381 期，2008 年 12 月号 (Dec 2008): 10-16.

“Returnees, Diasporas, and Failure: Can governments benefit from skilled outmigration?,” SSRC Migration and Development Conference paper No. 5, pp. 1-16, Migration and Development Essays on Future Directions for Research and Policy at http://programs.ssrc.org/intmigration/5Zweig.pdf.

“Hong Kong has a Rare Opportunity,” Hong Kong Journal, No. 10, April 2008. “Chinese Research Students and Scholars in Japan: The Impact on Sino-Japanese Relations,”

with Han Donglin, Zhongkuo kenzai (China’s Economy; JETRO, Tokyo, January 2008): 36-51.

“The Mobility of Chinese Human Capital: The View from the United States,” in Udai Tambar, ed., Movement of Global Talent: The Impact of High Skill Labor Flows from India and China (Policy Research Institute for the Region, Princeton University, 2007), pp. 9-22.

“International Political Economy and Explanations of China’s Globalization,” with Chen Zhimin, in Globalization and China’s Reforms, in David Zweig and Chen Zhimin, eds. (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 1-18.

“Transnational Human Capital: Returnees to China,” with Chen Changgui and Stanley Rosen, in Globalization and China’s Reforms, in David Zweig and Chen Zhimin, eds. (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 204-222.

“Is China a Magnet for Talent?” Horizon (Ottawa: Department of External Affairs, 2006). “Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with Chung

Siu Fung, in Manoranjan Mohanty, Ma Rong and Richard Baum (eds.), Grass Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right to Participate (New Delhi: Sage, 2006), pp. 339-362.

“海归的含金量，”东方周刊（Oriental Outlook）, 第 44 期（2006）：68-69。 “重新定义人才流失：‘为国服务’和‘侨居方案’，”欧美同学 2006 北京论坛文

集，留学研究, (Conference Proceedings of the China Western Returned Scholars Annual Conference, October 28, 2006, Beijing): 31-37.

“Transnational or Social Capital? Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs” (with Wilfried Vanhanocker and Chung Siu Fung), in Anne S. Tsui, Yanjie Bian and Leonard


Cheng, eds., China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006), pp. 65-81.

“Learning to Compete: China’s Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain,” in Christiane Kuptsch and PANG Eng Fong, ed., Competing for Global Talent (Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies, 2006), pp. 187-213.

“Transnational Capital: Valuing Academics in a Globalizing China,“ with Stan Rosen, in Cheng Li, ed., Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005), pp. 111-132.

“Author’s Response: Leaders, Markets, and Rents—Three Aspects of China’s Internationalization,” Issues and Studies, 40, no. 1 (March 2004): 247-255.

“跨国资本：对中国归国学术人才的评估,” (“Transnational capital: Evaluating Chinese academic returnees”; with Stanley Rosen), 负担教育论坛 (Fudan Education Forum), vol. 7, no. 1 (2004): 39-47.

“Political Culture, Alternative Politics and Democracy in Greater China,” in Fahimul Quadir and Jayant Lele, eds., Democracy and Civil Society in Asia, Volume 1: Globalization, Democracy and Civil Society in Asia (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 111-139.

“China Joins the World – Part One: How bureaucratic barriers were breached with a policy of ‘No flow, no dough,’ YaleGlobal, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 15 September 2003, posted at http://yaleglobal.yale.edu.

“To the Courts or to the barricades: can new political institutions manage rural conflict?” in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Chinese Society, 2nd Edition: Change, conflict and resistance (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), pp. 113-135.

“Brain Drain and Brain Gain: Developing a New Generation of Chinese Scholars Abroad,” with Stanley Rosen, SciDevNet Website (sponsored by Nature and Science magazines), posted at www.scidev.net, January 2003.

“Chine 1998-2000: la derniere vague de reformes en panne,” Politique Etrangere, no. 1 (2001): 23-40.

“The Internationalization of Higher Education in China,” The Washington Journal of Modern China, volume 6, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 39-60.

"The `Externalities of Development’: Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict?,” in Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden, eds., Contemporary Chinese Society: Social Conflict and Popular Protest (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 120-142.

"Undemocratic Capitalism: China and the Limits of Economism," The National Interest, no. 56 (Summer 1999): 63-72.

"Institutional Constraints, Path Dependence, and Entrepreneurship: Comparing Nantong and Zhangjiagang, 1984-1996," in Jae Ho Chung, ed., Agents of Development: Sub-Provincial Cities in Post-Mao China (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 215-255.

"对外开放与中国大学,” (China's Open Policy and Chinese Universities), with Chen Changgui, 高等教育研究 (Journal of Higher Education), vol. 77, no. 1 (1998): 50-56, reprinted in 新华文摘, no. 4 (1998): 158-162, and People's University Journal Reproduction Materials (复印报刊资料), 高等教育(Higher Education) G4, May 1998: 36-42.

"Eye on the Ball: The Politics of Welfare in Hong Kong," Hong Kong Update (Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., November 1997).

"America Should Mix Cooperation with Confrontation Toward China," Charles P. Cozic, ed., U.S. Policy Towards China (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1996), pp. 10-22 (A reprint of my article in Current History, 1993).

"A Headless Dragon: Creating Scenarios for Post-Deng China," in Globalization and Regionalization of China's Economy: A Look to the Future, edited by Hong-pyo Lee and Denis Fred Simon (Seoul: Sejong Institute, 1996).

"Clinton and China: Creating a Policy Agenda that Works," Current History (Sept. 1993): 245-252.


"Export-Led Growth, Local Autonomy, and U.S.-China Relations," In Depth (Fall 1993): 19-36.

"The Downward Spiral: Sino-American Relations Since Tiananmen," in William Joseph, ed., China Briefing 1991 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), pp. 119-142.

"The Hunger Strike: From Protest to Uprising," in Suzanne Ogden et. al. eds., China's Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992), pp. 185-201.

"Rural Industry: Constraining China's Leading Economic Sector," in Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, China's Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problems of Reforms, Modernization and Interdependence (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1991), pp. 418-436.

"U.S.-China Relations and Human Rights: The Changing Nature of a Bilateral Relationship," William Tow, ed., Building Sino-American Relations: An Agenda for the 1990s (New York: Paragon Press, 1991), pp. 57-94.

"Agrarian Radicalism as a Rural Development Strategy," in William A. Joseph, Christine Wong, and David Zweig, eds., New Perspectives on China's Cultural Revolution, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Contemporary China Series, 1991), pp. 63-82.

"Evaluating China's Rural Policies: 1949-1989," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter 1990): 18-29.

"Struggling Over Land in China: Peasant Resistance After Collectivization, l966-l986," Forrest Colburn, ed., Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1990), pp. 151-174.

"Dilemmas Under Partial Reform: Collective and State Firms in Competition with the Rural Private Sector," Bruce Reynolds, ed., China in a New Era: Continuity and Change, Vol. II: Economy (New York: Paragon House, 1990), pp. 13-40.

"Peasants and Politics: The Chinese Countryside After Tiananmen," World Policy Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 1989): 633-646.

"Fusion or Fission? Reforming China's Political Economy," Harvard International Review, vol. xi, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 4-7.

"La revoluzione ininterrotta di Mao e le campagne cinesi, 1968-1978," in Enrica Colloti Pischel, Emilia Giancotti, and Aldo Natoli, eds., Mao Zedong dalla political alla storia (Rome: Editori Reuiniti, 1988), pp. 128-146.

"Peasants, Ideology and New Incentive Systems: Jiangsu Province, 1978-1981," in William L. Parish, ed., Chinese Rural Development: The Great Transformation (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1985), pp. 141-164, (reprinted in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Summer 1985).

"China at Thirty-Five: Reform, Readjustment, and Reorientation," with Paul Evans, Behind the Headlines, vol. xiii, no. 4, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1985.

China's Agricultural Reforms: Background and Prospects, with Steven Butler (New York: Asia Society, 1985).

"Economic Development and Social Conflict: The Politics of Prosperity in Rural China," Canada and the Pacific Programme Working Paper No. 23, Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, University of Toronto-York University, 1984.

Book Reviews: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in its First Decade, ed., Joseph Y. S. Cheng,

in The China Journal, No. 61 (January 2009): 251-53. Globalization and State Transformation in China, by Yongnian Zheng, in Acta Politica, Vol. 41, Issue 4 (Dec 2006): 434. Guangdong: Preparing for the WTO Challenge, ed., Joseph Y.S. Cheng, in Pacific Affairs,

Vol. 78, No. 4 (Winter 2006). The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy, by Lawrence C.

Reardon, The China Quarterly, no. 177 (March 2004): 217-219.


The Transformation of Rural China, by Jonathan Unger, Pacific Affairs, Volume 76, No. 3 (October 2003).

Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927, by Wei-li Ye, The China Quarterly, vol. 173 (March 2003).

Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing US-China Relations, 1989-2000, by David M. Lampton, in The International History Review, Vol. XXIV, 3 (September 2002).

The Urban-Rural Divide, by John Knight and Lina Song, in the Journal of Asian Studies, February 2001.

The Entrepreneurial State in China: Real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin, by Jane Duckett, in American Political Science Review, vol. 94, 1 (March 2000): 210-211.

Zouping in Transition: The Process or Reform in Rural North China, ed. by Andrew G. Walder in Pacific Affairs, January 2000, Volume 72, No. 4, Winter.

Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine, by Dali L. Yang, in The China Quarterly, no. 155 (Sept. 1998).

Rural China in Transition: Non-Agricultural Development in Rural Jiangsu, 1978-1990, by Samuel P.S. Ho, in Pacific Affairs, vol. 70, no. 4 (March 1998).

Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979-1989, by Daniel Kelliher, in The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (Summer 1994).

Rural Development in China: Prospect and Retrospect, by Fei Hsiao-tung, in Studies in Comparative International Development (Winter 1991-92).

China and the Door Open Policy, by Kevin Bucknall, in The China Quarterly (Sept. 1991). The Geography of Contemporary China: The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade, Terry

Cannon and Alan Jenkins, eds., in The China Quarterly (June 1991). Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution, by Helen F. Siu, in

American Journal of Sociology (Spring 1991). Politics and Social Change in China Since 1978, by Charles Burton, in American

Political Science Review (December 1990). Chinese Politics: Documents and Analysis, James T. Myers, Jurgen Domes, and

Milton D. Yeh, eds., in The China Quarterly (December 1989). Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Prospects for Socialism in China's Countryside, by Pat

Howard, in Pacific Affairs (Winter 1989). China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao, by Harry Harding, in The Fletcher Forum of

World Affairs (Summer 1988). Chinese Business Under Socialism: The Politics of Domestic Commerce, 1949-1980, by

Dorothy J. Solinger, in The Journal of Asian Studies (November 1987). The Social Sciences and Fieldwork in China: Views from the Field, by Anne P. Thurston and

Burton Pasternak, eds., in Pacific Affairs (Winter 1985-86). The Critique of Ultra-Leftism in China, 1958-1981, by William A. Joseph, PacificAffairs

(Fall 1985). Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development, ed. by Milton J. Esman and

Norman T. Uphoff, in Caribbean Review (Winter 1984). Socialism in the Chinese Countryside, by Jurgen Domes, in Pacific Affairs (Summer 1982). Inside Peking, by Beverly Hooper, in Pacific Affairs (Fall 1980). Work in Progress “From “Recreating Itself” to “Concept-Driven” Development: Hong Kong’s Contribution to the

Mainland’s Property Sector, with Amy Liu (submitted to Asian Survey) “Training a New Generation of Mainland Students: The Role of Hong Kong,” with Amy Liu

(submitted to Asian Survey) “’Resource Diplomacy’ Under Hegemony: Foreign Policy ‘Triangularism’ and Sino-

American Energy Competition in the 21st Century,” under submissionn. “Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” paper presented at the Metropolis Conference, Melbourne,

Australia. (under revision).


Working Papers and Unpublished Reports: “Hai Dai and the Problem of Unemployed Returnees,” a collaborative research project with

the Overseas Study Service Center, Bureau of Personnel, Guangzhou Municipal Government. Report completed with Han Donglin on 1 November 2007.

“Returnees and Technology Transfer: Who is Bringing What to China, and Why?” Report to Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO—Hong Kong), March 2007.

“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” CCTR Working Paper, no. 18, 2007. “Parking On the Doorstep: Mainland Professional in Hong Kong.” “China Rising: Regional Integration or Confrontation,” paper prepared for the Northeast Asia

Cooperation Project, University of British Columbia, 10 November 2001. “Will China Liberalize?” CCR Discussion Paper 98-3, Centre for Chinese Research,

University of British Columbia, March 1998. Report for the Ford Foundation, “Report on Chinese Students and Scholars in the United

States who received financial support from non-governmental organization,” December 1994.

RECENT TEACHING EXPERIENCE SOSC 152, Comparative Politics; SOSC 228, International Relations of East Asia; SOSC 360, Understanding Chinese Politics; SOSC 552, International Aspects of China’s Reforms; Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA, Contemporary Issues in Chinese Politics; HKUST MBA-SBMT 540: Politics and Socio-Economic Environment of China. Day-long or half-day seminars to KUBS RESEARCH INTERESTS

• International Political Economy and transnational relations • China’s Resource Diplomacy • Returnees to China and China’s New Diaspora • Hong Kong-Mainland Relations • Chinese Policy making and policy implementation • East Asian International Relations • Chinese domestic and elite politics, popular protests and political participation • Rural political reform, rural democracy and rural development • China's foreign policy, foreign trade, foreign investment and foreign aid • Chinese urbanization and development zones • Higher education in China

EDUCATION 1976-1983 The University of Michigan, Ph.D. Political Science 1975-1976 Beijing University, Degree Philosophy 1974-1975 Beijing Languages Institute, Degree Mandarin Chinese 1973-1974 York University, Toronto, M.A. Political Science 1968-1972 York University, Toronto, B.A. (hons.) Political Science


HONOURS AND AWARDS In 2004, the journal, Issues and Studies, published a “Book Review Roundtable” on my book,

Internationalizing China, with reviews by 5 scholars and a response by me. See Issues and Studies, 40, no. 1 (March 2004): 225-255.

“Outstanding Teaching Award,” Winner, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, 1999.

“Teaching Award,” Honourable Mention, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, 1998.

Freeing China’s Farmers was nominated by M.E. Sharpe for the Levenson Prize, Association for Asian Studies, as the best book on contemporary China for 1998.

CONSULTANCIES and ADVISORY WORK “Returnees and Technology Transfer: Who is Bringing What to China, and Why?” project

funded by JETRO, Dec. 2006-March 2007 (HK$42,000). “Serving the Nation from Inside and Outside: The role of returned and unreturned

mainlanders in Sino-Canadian exchanges,” Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (CDN$24,000), June 2006-May 2007.

“Comparing China and Russia’s Role in Kazakhstan Energy Development, Shell Oil, London England

Orboteck, “Political Risk in China,” 14 October 2008. “Political Risk in China,” Swedish Trade Council, Mandarin Hotel, HK, 20 November 2007. “Political Risk in China,” Deutsche Bank, 25 September 2007. RESEARCH GRANTS “Hong Kong People on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?” 1 September 2007- 31

August 2009, funded by the Central Policy Unit, Public Policy Research Grant, in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou (HK$799, 017).

“Hong Kong’s Contribution to China’s Modernization,” Shui-On Group, 2006-2007, HK$600,000.

“Overseas Study and Its Impact on Sino-Japanese Trade Relations,” funded by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO—Hong Kong), April 2006, HK$170,000. In cooperation with the China Service Center on Scholarly Exchange (CSCSE) under the Ministry of Education.

“People on the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” conference organized through the Center on China’s Transnational Relations, held at HKUST on 20-22 October 2005. Funding from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (US25,000) and the Research & Conference Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada (CAD$29,640).

Principal Investigator, with Wilfred Vanhonacker, Hang Lung Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “China’s transnational entrepreneurs: Returnee scholars as private businessmen,” HK$150,000, 2002-2004.

Principal Investigator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, ““China Prepares for the Onslaught: Local Strategies in Response to WTO,” 2001-2004, CDN$72,000. (The money from this grant was returned after I resigned from Queen’s University on June 30, 2002).

Principal Investigator, in collaboration with Dr. Fan Yongming, Shanghai WTO Centre, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, “China Prepares for the Onslaught: Local Strategies in Response to WTO Accession,” 2001-2003, HK$565,000.

“Globalization and China’s Reforms,” a conference organized through the Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, in cooperation with the School of International Affairs and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai. Funding was supplied by


Manulife (Shanghai, 100,000 RMB) and the Research & Conference Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada (CDN$50,000).

Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “TVEs Under Crisis: External Pressures vs. Domestic Institutions,”1999-2000, HK$ 52,000.

Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "Democracy, Conflict and Economic Development in Rural China," 1998-1999, HK$78,000.

Principal Investigator, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, "China's Reverse `Brain Drain': Returned Scholars in a Transnational Era," in collaboration with Chen Changgui and Stanley Rosen, 1997-2000, HK$535,000.

Principal Investigator, Direct Allocation Grant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "A Tale of Two Cities: Nantong and Zhangjiagang Under China's Open Policy," 1996-1997, HK$73,000.

Principal Investigator, United States Institute of Peace, "Democracy, Conflict and Economic Development in Rural China," 1996-1997, US$49,000.

Principal Investigator (with Professor Chen Changgui), The Ford Foundation, "China's Brain Drain to the United States," 1992-1993, US$50,000.

Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, "The Political Economy of Canadian Development Assistance to China: The Case of CIDA," 1992-1995, CDN$24,000.

Principal Investigator (with Roderick MacFarquhar), Henry Luce Foundation "United States-China Cooperative Research Program," in cooperation with Research Centre for Rural Development, Beijing, to study "State, Society, and the Changing Chinese Rural Community," 1989-1991, US$240,000. (never completed because of Tiananmen).

Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, "China's New Rural Development Strategy," 1985-86, CDN$27,300.

DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 1. East-West Strategic Development Commission, (2006-2007) HK$75,000, for the CCTR. 2. Danton Limited, 2006, HK$75,000 for the Center on China’s Transnational Relations. 3. Chang Tseng-Hsi Foundation, (HK$2,000,000), 2004-2006, for establishment of the

CCTR. 4. Dinner Seminar Series, funding by Paul Theil, 2004-05, HK$75,000 5. Program on Southeast Asian Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, funded by

the Henry Luce Foundation, (US$300,000), 1993-1996. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Advanced Scholars Program for Study in The People's Republic of China, Committee on

Scholarly Communication with China, Washington, D.C., 1991-92. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University,

1984-85. Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,

1982-1983 (declined). Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1977-

1978, 1978-1979, 1981-1982. Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, The University of Michigan, 1980-1981.


SELECTED RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES, SEMINARS, AND CONFERENCES Papers at Professional Academic Conferences: “Redefining the Brain Drain: China’s ‘Diaspora Option’,” International Studies Association

Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-22 February 2010. “China and the World Economy: The Rise of a New Trading Nation,“ paper presented at the

World International Studies Association, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 24 July 2008. “Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” Keynote speech at the 10th National Metropolis Conference,

Melbourne, Australia, 9 October 2007. “Parking on the Doorstep: A Case of Multiple Migration,” 10th National Metropolis

Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 10 October 2007. “Chinese Students in Japan: The Business Connection,” presented at the Association of

International Business National Convention, Indianapolis, IN, 27 June 2007. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State,” Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong

Political Science Association, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2005. “Parking on the Doorstep: Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong,” paper presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, Hong Kong University, 2 May 2003.

“Democracy and (In)Equality in Rural China: A Dialectical Relationship,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association National Convention, San Francisco, CA, August 2001.

“The Open Door and Foreign Donors: Can China Keep Control?” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, CA, March 2000.

"Controlling the Opening: Enmeshment, Organizational Capacity, and the Limits on Overseas Development Assistance in China," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association National Convention, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2-5, 1993.

"The Impact of the Open Policy on Higher Education in China," co-written with Chen Changgui, presented to the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, CA, March 1993.

"The Domestic Politics of Export-led Development," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, March 1993.

"The Politics of Developing Towns," presented at the 1988 National Convention of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, CA, 25 March 1988.

"Up From the Village, Into the City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations in China," presented at the Regional Science Association National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 15 November 1985.

"The Changing Distributions of China's Key Social Values Under the Household Contract System," presented at the 1984 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 30-September 2, 1984.

"Economic Development and Social Conflict: The Politics of Prosperity in Rural China," paper presented at the 1984 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C., 23-25 March 1984.

"Limitations on Agrarian Radicalism: Local Interests and Opposition to Changing the Level of Ownership and Account," presented at the Canadian Political Science Association National Convention, Ottawa, Canada, June 1982.

Papers and Presentations at Invited Academic Conferences: “Reflections on China’s Border Policies and Their Transnational Flows,” presented at the

Conference on “China’s Policies on Its Borderlands and Their International Implications,” University of Macau, 11-12 March 2010.


“China’s Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” presented at the Conference on “A Century of Change: China and Modernization 1900–Present,” Sept. 17 and 18, 2009, University of Maryland and Library of Congress, Washington DC.

“Returnees, Technology Transfer and China’s Economic Development,” 第四届“海外人才与

中国发展”国际学术研讨会, 华中师范大学武汉侨务理论研究中心, 华中师范大学武

汉, 28-29 June, 2009 Conference on “Internationalization of Chinese Universities,” Zhongshan University,

Guangzhou. “Recreating Itself:” Hong Kong’s Contribution to the Mainland’s Property Sector,” with Amy

Liu, paper prepared for the Workshop on “Hong Kong’s Role in the Mainland’s Modernization” Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 15-16 January 2009, Hong Kong

“Training a New Generation of Mainland Students: The Role of Hong Kong,” paper prepared for the Workshop on “Hong Kong’s Role in the Mainland’s Modernization,” with Amy Liu, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 15-16 January 2009, Hong Kong.

“China’s Diaspora and Returnees: Impact on China’s Globalization Process,” with Wang Huiyao, paper presented at the Conference on “The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Transformational Politics, Business Strategies, and Future Paths,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 9-10, 2008.

“Chinese Students in Japan: A Win-Win Situation,” paper presented at the “Sino-Japanese Relations Research Symposium 2008,” The University of Hong Kong, 10 June 2008.

“Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony,” presentation to the Stockholm China Forum, German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3 June 2008.

“Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: Triangularizing Sino-American Global Competition,” Clingendael International Energy Programme, The Hague, The Netherlands, 20 May 2008 and Maastericht Debates, Maastericht University, Maastericht, The Netherlands, 19 May 2008.

“Images of the Outside World: The Impact of Overseas Studies,” with Han Donglin, for the conference on “Foreign-Domestic Linkages in China's International Behaviours,” Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, BC, April 24 - 25, 2008.

“Returnees, Diasporas and Failure: Can governments undo the brain drain?” presented at the Workshop on Migration and Development: Future Directions for Research and Policy, Social Science Research Council, New York, February 27-March 1, 2008.

“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Shanghai Forum 2007, Fudan University, 25 May 2007.

“A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,” paper for the Conference on Sino-American Relations, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 21 April 2007.

“The Mobility of Chinese Human Capital: The View from the United States,” paper for the “Conference on ‘The Movement of Global Talent’,” Policy Research Institute for the Region, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 7-8 December 2006.

“Social Context and Migrant Mobilization: The Case of China,” paper presented to the International Committee on Migration and Development Research, Social Science Research Council, New York, 14-15 November 2006.

“Is China a Magnet for Talent?” paper presented at the Eighth National Canadian Metropolis Conference “Immigration and Canada’s Place in a Changing World,” Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, 24 March 2006.

“Serving the Nation from Abroad: Comparing Mainland Professors in the United States and Hong Kong, “ with Han Donglin, paper prepared for the Conference on “People on the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” Center on China’s


Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, October 21-22, 2005.

“Reverse Migration and Technology: The Case of China,” with Wilfried Vanhonacker and Chung Siu Fung, presented at the Conference on “People on the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, October 21-22, 2005.

“China’s Resource Based Foreign Policy,” presented at the conference on “China’s Search for Energy Security and Implications for the U.S.,” sponsored by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security, National Defence University, Washington, DC, September 27-28, 2005.

“Reverse Migration and Regional Integration: Entrepreneurs and Scientists in the PRC,” paper prepared for the conference, “Remaking Economic Strengths in East Asia: Dealing with the Repercussions of Increased Interdependence,” Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 8-9 April 2005.

“Learning to Compete: China’s Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain,” paper presented at the Conference on Competing for Global Talent, Singapore Management University, Singapore, 12-13 January 2005.

“Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State: Comments on a Paper by David Shambaugh,” POSCO Conference on the Chinese Economy, Soeul, ROK, 11 November 2004.

“Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” POSCO Conference on the Chinese Economy, Soeul, ROK, 11 November 2004.

“Redefining China’s Brain Drain: ‘Wei Guo Fuwu’ and the ‘Diaspora Option’,” with Dr. Chung Siu Fung, paper prepared for the 40th Anniversary Reunion Conference: The State of Contemporary China, The Universities Service Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 5-7, 2004.

“Transnational or Social Capital? Returnee Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs,” with Wilfred Vanhonacker, presented at the the Research Workshop, “The Management and Performance of China’s Domestic Private Firms: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 15 December 2003.

“Transnational Capital: Valuing Academic Returnees in a Globalizing China,” with Stan Rosen, Paper presented at the conference on “Bridging Minds Across the Pacific—The 25 Year Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange,” Fudan University, Shanghai, November 10-11, 2003.

“Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China,” with Chung Siu Fung, presented at the conference on “Local Governance in India and China: Rural Development and Social Change,” sponsored by the Institute of Social Science (New Delhi), Institute of Sociology and Anthropology (Peking University), and UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Calcutta, India, 6-8 January 2003.

“Zan po jia men: Zai Xianggang de dalu zhuanye ren,” (Parking on the Doorstep: Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong), presented at the First Conference on Comparative Research on Chinese Society, Donghai University, Taiwan, December 9-10, 2002 (in Chinese).

“`Parking on the Doorstep?’: Mainland Professionals in Hong Kong,” presented at the conference on “New Directions in Chinese Foreign Policy,” A Conference in Honour of Allen S. Whiting, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 7-8 November 2002.

“Can China Internationalize?” National Convention of the Asian Political and Economic Studies Association of Japan, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 26 October 2002.

“Strengthening Democracy: Direct Nominations and Electoral Legitimacy in Rural China,” with Chung Siu Fung, presented at the conference on Legal and Political Reform in the People’s Republic of China, Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University, Sweden, 3-4 June 2002.

“Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: The Case of Returnees to China,” presented at the conference on Globalization and China’s Reforms: An IPE


Approach, organized by Fudan University and Queen’s University (Canada), May 22-24, 2002, Shanghai, China.

“Do New Institutions Matter: The Impact of Direct Nominations on Grass Roots Democracy in China,” International Symposium on Village Self-Government, The Carter Center and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Beijing, 3-5 September 2001.

“The Stalled Fifth Wave: Zhu Rongji’s Reform Package of 1998-2000,” presented at the Workshop on Chinese Policy Debates, Institut francais des relations internationales, 6 September 2000, Paris, France.

“Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Informal Politics in Greater China,” presented at the Conference on "Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges," Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 19-21 August 2000.

"Hungry for Linkages: Domestic Interests and China's Internationalization," paper prepared for the Conference on "International Relations Theory and the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy," Harvard University, 19-20 June 1998.

"Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions, and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management Training Centres in China," paper presented at the International Conference on China's Ownership Reform and its Influence on Economic Development, China Economic Research Centre, University of Macau, 16-17 March 1998.

"Distortions in the Opening: Weak Property and `Zone Fever' in China, 1992-93," paper for the International Conference on "Chinese Economic Reform: Comparative Perspectives," 12-13 March 1998, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University.

"Will China Liberalize?," paper presented at the Conference on "Hou Jiuqi Liang an san di guanxi" (Conference on the relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and the three territories--Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China), Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, 31 May-1 June 1997.

"Who's State is it Anyway? The Control of Overseas Development Assistance in China," paper prepared for the Workshop on "Southern East Asia Economy: State and Economic Development," Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-26 April 1997.

"Explaining China's Internationalization: Domestic/External Linkages in the Evolution of China's Open Policy," presented to the Workshop on “International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy," American Council of Learned Societies China Committee, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 21-22 April 1995.

"The Impact of Foreign Trade on Rural China," presented at the "Conference on Rural Reforms in China," East Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, 31 March-2 April 1995.

"'Developmental Communities,' Local Autonomy, and the Challenges for Sino-American Relations," presented at the Conference on U.S.-China Relations, University of Bridgeport, April 1993.

"Internationalizing China's Countryside: Exports from Rural Industry," presented at the 19th Annual Sino-American Conference on Mainland China, Taiwan, June 1990. "Urbanizing Rural China: Bureaucratic Authority and Local Autonomy," presented

at the Conference on "The Structure of Authority and Bureaucratic Behavior in China," SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee, Phoenix, AZ, June 1988.

"Reforms in Socialist Systems: Imperatives for a Peaceful Foreign Policy?" presented at the Fletcher-Hokkaido Summer Seminar, Hokkaido, Japan, July 1988.

"Competing with the Rural Private Sector: Dilemmas of a Limited Reform," presented at the Professors for World Peace Academy International Conference on "China in a New Era," Manila, Philippines, August 1987.

"Form and Content in Policy Implementation," presented at the Conference on "New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution," Fairbank Center, Harvard University, May 1987.

"The Changing Nature of Urban-Rural Relations in China," presented at the Conference on the "Social Implications of China's Reforms, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, May 1985.


"Content and Context in Policy Implementation: Household Contracts in China, 1977-1983," presented at the Conference on "Policy Implementation in the Post-Mao Era," SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on Contemporary China, The Ohio State University, June 1983.

"The System of Responsibility: Elite Policy and Local Implementation," presented at the Conference on "Bureaucracy and Rural Development in China," SSRC-ACLS Joint Committee on Contemporary China, Chicago, IL., August 1981.

Participation in Government Seminars: Hong Kong Police “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” Asia Regional Conference of the Finnish Foreign

Service, 23 April 2009, Island-Shangrila Hotel, Hong Kong. “China, the Olympics and the World,” presentation to the Stockholm China Forum, German

Marshall Fund of the United States and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3 June 2008.

“’Sea Turtles’ or “Seaweed?’ The Employment of Overseas Returnees in China,” with Donglin Han, paper prepared for the France/ILO Symposium 2008, Fourth dialogue between France and the ILO on the social dimension of globalization, “The Internationalization of Labour Markets,” 15 May 2008, Paris, France.

“Energy Challenges for China,” Capstone Delegation, United States Consul General in Hong Kong, Helena May Club, Hong Kong, 13 Aug. 2007.

“Redefining the Brain Drain: China’s ‘Diaspora Option’,”11th Conference on Overseas Education, China Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 17 February 2006 (in Chinese).

“Learning to Compete: What Role Does China’s Government Play in Triggering a ‘Reverse Brain Drain’?” 8th Guangzhou Conference on Returnees, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 27 December 2005 (in Chinese).

“Transnational or Social Capital? Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs,” Workshop on Unemployed Returnees, Department of Personnel, Overseas Study Service Center, Guangzhou, 2005 (in Chinese).

“What Drives China’s Internationalization,” Official Languages Division, Civil Service Bureau, Hong Kong Government, 8 October 2003.

“Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages,” Canadian International Development Agency, Hull, Quebec, 1 August 2002.

“Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: The Case of Returnees to China,” presented to the China and Mongolia Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, Ontario, 2 August 2002.

“Unrest in Rural China,” Lecture to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,” Ottawa, Canada, 12 August, 1999.

"Regional Hot Spots: Overview of Challenges to Regional Security," China-Canada Seminar on Security Studies, sponsored by the Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies and the Canadian Maritime Forces-Pacific, Shanghai, 5 June 1998.

"Models of Economic Liberalization," presented to the "Greater China in 2010: Scenario Planning Project," Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, 6 June 1996.

"Industrialization, Globalization, and Regional Tensions in Rural China," presented to the Conference on "India and China: Different Paths Toward Economic Competitiveness," Office of Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, 27 September 1994.

Core participant, "China in the Near Term," Summer Study of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, The Naval War College, Newport, RI, 31 July-8 August 1994.


"China's Open Policy," half-day seminar to the Directorate Officers of the Hong Kong Government, China Seminar, 13 July 1993.

"Export-Led Growth in Rural China," Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, March 1993; Research Centre on the Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, December 1991.

"Human Rights and Sino-American Relations," lecture to North Asia Relations Division, Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Canada, 29 May 1991.

Invited participant, "China Policy Meeting," U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C., 17 April 1991.

"Rural Industries and China's Foreign Trade," lecture to an Intelligence and Research Bureau Symposium on China, U.S. Department of State, 27 September 1990.

"Rural Reform in Nanjing: A Foreign Perspective," Nanjing Municipal Rural Work Department, Nanjing, China, 7 July 1986.

Participant, "The Validity of Long-Term Assessments Concerning China's Political and Economic Prospects," Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, March 1985.

Community Lectures Lecture on Chinese politics to the Hong Kong Police Department, Senior Officers Seminar, 9

November 2009 “Diaspora Deliver Diversity,” Shane-Walsh-Till Memorial Lecture, Chinese International

School, 28 April 2009. Selected Public Lectures on Research: 1996-2010: “The Conflict between Environmental Protection and Economic Development: China's

Policies on Global Warming,” Institute for the Environment, HKUST, 4 Jan. 2010. “Leadership, Quality and Values: Reflections on China’s Returnees in the 21st Century,”

presented at the Workshop, “Life after 60: What's Next for the PRC?” Sponsored by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the University of Southern California, Hyatt on the Bund, Shanghai, 28 October 2009.

“Political Risk in China: Elites, Society and the International System,”” Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, Foreign Correspondents’ Club, 19 May 2009.

“Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony,” Keynote Address to The International Seminar on the Strategy of National Security and Development of Science and Technology, National University of Defence Technology, May 11-13, 2009, Changsha, China.

“Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony: The triangular nature of Sino-American global competition,” Sino-American Relations Workshop, The Fulbright Program, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing, May 15-17, 2009.

“Diaspora Delivers Diversity,” Department of Political Science and Centre for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 20 April 2009.

“China, the Olympics and the World,” Stockholm China Forum, German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3 June 2008.

“Resource Diplomacy Under Hegemony,” Stockholm China Forum, German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-3 June 2008.

“China, the Olympics and the World,” lecture at the workshop on “China, the Olympics and the World,” Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong, 27 May 2008.

“The Quality of Democracy in East Asia,” Discussant for the Conference on “The Experiments with Democracy in East and Southeast Asia: Two Decades After,” 2 May 2008, Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University.


“Hu Jintao’s Second Term,” Conference on The Washington-Taipei-Beijing Relations: Variables and Prospects, Brookings Institution and Foundation and International and Cross-Straits Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 December 2007.

“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” presented at the conference on “The U.S. Congress and Sino-American Relations, co-hosted by the China Education Foundation and the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, Central Party School, Beijing, 27 October 2007.

“Returnees to China: A Foreigner’s Perspective,” Western Returnees Beijing Forum 2007, 28 October 2007

“Chinese Overseas Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” Bafukai Seminar (organized by JETRO), Island-Shangrila Hotel, Hong Kong, 26 October 2007.

“Overseas Study and Its Impact on Sino-Japanese Relations,” Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 11 October 2007.

Presented at the “China on the Eve of the 17th Party Congress,” Sun Yatsen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 29 September 2007.

“A Crisis is Looming: China’s Energy Challenge in the Eyes of University Students,” Workshop on Issues of Global Energy, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, COOC, Wanchai, HK, 25 September 2007.

“Chinese Overseas Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” Workshop on Sino-Japanese Relations, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, COOC, Wanchai, HK, 5 September 2007.

“Chinese Overseas Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 23 July 2007.

“Transnational Business, Cultural and Innovation Linkages,” presented at the Policy Roundtable on Canadians Abroad, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, University of Ottawa, 23 June 2007.

“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” China Business Center, University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, 28 June 2007.

“Returned Students and Sino-Japanese Relations,” NGO Center, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, 15 August 2007.

“The ‘Diaspora’ Model in China’s Development,” National Defense University of Science and Technology, School of Humanities and Social Science, Changsha, 23 Jan. 2007.

“Rewards of Technology: Explaining China’s Reverse Migration,” presented to the Workshop on Returnees and Technology Transfer, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, OOCL, Wan Chai, HK

“The Strategic Implications of China’s Economic Growth,” Center for Contemporary China, Ching-hua University, Taipei, Taiwan. 14 March 2006.

“Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony,” presented at: • National Defense University on Science and Technology, School of Humanities and

Social Science, Changsha, 22 January 2007. • Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 8 December 2006.. • Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 6 December 2006. • Economist Intelligence Unit Workshop on the “The Geopolitics of a Rising China,”

10 October 2006; • Conference on “The Rise of China and Its Implications for Asia-Pacific,” Academia Sinica, Taipei, 25-26 August 2006. • 2nd China-Canada Energy Cooperation Conference, Beijing, 19 May 2006 • Israeli Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, April 2006. • Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. • Hong Kong Forum, Hong Kong. • Center for Contemporary China, Ching-hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan. March 15,

2006. • Universities Services Centre for China Studies Annual Conference for Ph.D.

Students, 7 January 2006.


I gave a series of lectures on China’s political economy, China’s administrative structure, China’s energy based foreign policy, and “Political Risk in China,” to the Young President’s Organization in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama; the Young Entrepreneurs Association, Guatemala; and, the Business School, University of Costa Rica, December 5-16, 2005.

“Political Risk in China,” Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong, September 2005. “The Foreign Policy of a Resource Hungry State,” presented at:

• United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, London, England, 2 December 2005.

• International Conference of Asian Scholars-4, Shanghai, August 22, 2005; • National Defence University, Washington, DC, 3 August 2005; • Fairbank Center on East Asian Research, Harvard University, 16 July 2005; • China-Canada Energy Cooperation Conference, Peking University, 25 March 2005; • Workshop on China’s Resource Hunger, Center on China’s Transnational Relations,

Orient Overseas Container Lines, Hong Kong, 14 March 2005. “Sino-Japanese Relations in a Global Context,” Hong Kong Forum, April 23, 2005. “Democracy in Rural China,” Seminar on Democracy and Human Rights in China, The

British Council and Civic Exchange, Hong Kong, 8 December 2004. “The ‘Diaspora’ Model in China’s Development,” International Conference of Asian

Scholars-4, Shanghai, 22 August 2005; Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 15 July 2004.

“Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: Returnees to China,” Research Institute on International Migration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., 27 June 2003.

“What is Driving China’s Global Integration?” a series of lectures to the Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles (23 June 2003), San Francisco (25 June 2003), Seattle (26 June 2003), and Vancouver (27 June 2003, co-sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Foundation).

“The Year of Living Dangerously: Politics in China in 1975-76,” Presented at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Hong Kong, 2 June 2003.

“Hong Kong and SARS,” lecture at the US-China Business Council Roundtable, “The Impact of SARS: China and Beyond,” U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, May 22, 2003.

“Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages,” Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C, 20 June 2003; Center for Asian Studies, Princeton University, 14 April 2003; Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University, 17 March 2003; Aarhus University, Center for Asian Studies, Aarhus, Denmark, June 2002; The Foreign Correspondents Club, Beijing, 15 October 2002; The Asia Society: Hong Kong Center, 23 October 2002; The Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, 4 November 2002; The National Committee on US-China Relations, 11 November 2002; East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 12 November 2002; Institute for International Relations, Chengchi University, Taipei, 11 November 2002; Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 12 November 2002;

“Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: Returnees to China,” Eurasian Institute, Taipei, 9 December 2002.

“Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Alternative Politics in Greater China,” New England China Seminar, Harvard University, 7 November 2002.

“Globalization and the Movement of Human Capital: Returnees to China,” Faculty Seminar Series, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 29 May 2002.

“China’s Rural Crisis,” Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) China Forum, Beijing, 16 May 2002.

“Can China’s Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict?” The Hong Kong Centre, The Asia Society, Hong Kong, 15 January 2002.


“China’s Rural Reform and Rural Unrest,” The Hong Kong Forum, The Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong, 7 March 2002.

“China and her Neighbours: Regional Integration of Confrontation,” Dinner Seminar Series on “China Rising,” Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, September 2001.

"Hungry for Linkages: Domestic Interests and China's Internationalization." Presented at the Seminar Series on “China at 50: Globalization in the New Millenium,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, September 1999; East Asian Institute, University of Singapore, February 2000; Center for Asian Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, March 2000; The Hong Kong Forum, Hong Kong, March 2000; New England China Seminar, Harvard University, January 2001; Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies and Department of Political Science, York University, February 2001.

“Rural Conflict in China,” Foreign Correspondents Club, Hong Kong, July 1999. “Can China’s New Political Institutions Manage Social Conflict?” Foreign Correspondents

Club, Beijing, 28 April 1999. “Will China Liberalize?” Young Presidents’ Organization, 22 March 1999, Hong Kong. “Domestic Forces in China’s Open Policy,” Department of Political Science, Beijing

University, November 1998. “Explaining China’s Zone Fever of 1992-93,” Economics Department, Nanjing University,

October 1998. “Dollars and Dissent: The Political Implications of the East Asian Economic Crisis,” Jewish

Women’s Association, Hong Kong, October 1998. "China's `Zone Fever' of 1992-93," University Services Centre, Chinese University of Hong

Kong, Hong Kong, 27 May 1998. "Elite, Business, and Popular Culture in China," Young President's Organization, Hong Kong,

February 1998. "Will China Liberalize?" Fairbank Center on East Asian Research, Harvard University; and

East Asia Institute, The University of British Columbia, January 1998. "Transition to Chinese Sovereignty: Implications for Hong Kong and the Mainland," Nanjing-

Hopkins Center, Nanjing University, June 1997; and East Asia Colloquia Series, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 5 August 1997.

"Will China Liberalize?" Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club, 18 April 1997. "The Economic Roots of Rural Democracy," The Asia Society: Hong Kong Center, Hong

Kong, April 1997. "China's Future and its Implications for East Asia," Perak Chamber of Commerce, Ipoh,

Perak State, Malaysia, 26 April 1997. "China's Brain Drain to the U.S. and its Implications for the Hong Kong Business

Community," American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, 21 February 1997. "China's Brain Drain to the U.S.," Centre for Asian Studies, Hong Kong University,

December 1996. "China's Brain Drain to the U.S.," The Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institute,

Washington, DC, May 1996. "Institutions Versus Markets in Explaining China's Internationalization," Joint Center on Asia

Pacific Affairs, York University-University of Toronto, January 1996. 1986-1995: (no titles provided) East Asian Studies Program, Cornell University, November 1995. Workshop on Institutional Aspects of Chinese Reforms, Harvard University, April 1995. The Nanjing-Hopkins Centre, Nanjing, May 1994; East Asia Colloquium, Harvard University, May 1994; The World Bank, Washington, D.C., January, 1993; Brown University Seminar on Political Economy, October 1992; Chinese Electronics University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, China, Mar. 1992; Universities Services Centre, Chinese University, Hong Kong, Feb. 1992;


Central China University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Dec. 1991; Center for Chinese Studies, University of California-Berkeley, September 1990; Sociology Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, July 1990. Fairbank Center Seminar, Harvard University, February 1990; East Asian Legal Studies, Law School, Harvard University, April 1990; The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, November 1989; Joint Centre on Asia-Pacific Studies, York University-University of Toronto, May 1989; Fletcher-Hokkaido Seminar, Hokkaido, Japan, July 1988. Joint Seminar on Political Development, Harvard University-MIT, April and Oct. 1988; New England China Seminar, Harvard University, February 1987; Hoover Institution, Stanford University, January 1986; Institute for Developing Economies, Tokyo, August 1986; Department of Economics, Nanjing University, July 1986. Membership of Journal Editorial or Advisory Boards: The China Quarterly Pacific Affairs China Perspectives Journal of Contemporary China Contemporary Politics OMNES: Journal of Migration & Society Asian Politics & Policies, 2009 Studies in China and International Organization book series, Shanghai International Studies University Asian American Review (1998-2003)

Executive Committee Memberships:

President, Hong Kong Political Science Association, Sept. 2008 – Chair, Fundraising Committee, Children’s Heart Foundation, Hong Kong, 2006- Member, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Forum, 2008- Treasurer, Hong Kong Political Science Association, 2006-2008 Vice President, United Jewish Congregation, Hong Kong, 2004-2008 Member, Executive Committee, United Jewish Congregation, 1997-2008 Member, Executive Committee, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard

University, 1990-1992. Member, Executive Committee, Joint Centre on Modern East Asia, University of Toronto and

York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1985-1986.

Peer Review: Outside Reviewer for: Journals: Comparative Politics, International Organization, American Journal of Political

Science, Journal of Comparative Economics, Pacific Affairs, Modern China, Comparative Education Review, Journal of Asian Studies, China Journal, Studies in Comparative International Development, International Regional Science Review, Urban Geography, The Journal of Developing Areas, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Sociological Perspectives, Review of International Political Economy, Environment and Planning (A), Pacific Review, New Political Economy, Issues and Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Management and Organization Review.

Book Publishers: Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, Harvard East Asian Council, The Chinese University Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Routledge.

Evaluated proposals for: U.S. National Science Foundation, 1994, 1997, 1998; Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), 1998, 2000, 2002-05; Committee on Scholarly


Communication with China, 1983-1992; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1989-1993; U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994; The Israel Science Foundation, 2000, SSHRC (Canada), 2010, Wittgenstein Award (Austria), 2010.

Member, Research Grant Proposal Review Committee; Committee on Advanced Study in China, Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, National Academy of Science (US), 1992-1995.

Professional Memberships: American Political Science Association Association for Asian Studies National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Hong Kong Forum Pacific Council on International Policy International Studies Association Conference and Panel Organizer: Hong Kong Political Science Association First Annual Conference, HKUST, August 21-22,

2009. Organizer and Moderator, “Debate on Hong Kong’s Political Future,” Audrey Eu and Regina

Ip, Hong Kong Political Science Association, Baptist University, 27 April 2009. “Hong Kong’s Contribution to China’s Modernization,” funded by the Shui-On Group, held

at CCTR, HKUST, January 15-16, 2009. “People on the Move: The Transnational Flow of Chinese Human Capital,” conference

sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, held at the Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 20-22 October 2005.

Panel Organizer, Hong Kong Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 7 May 2005, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Panel Organizer, Hong Kong Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2 May 2003, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.

Conference Co-Organizer, “Globalization and China’s Reforms: An IPE Approach,” organized by Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University and the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, 22-24 May 2002.

Panel Organizer, Association for Asian Studies National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2000. Panel Chair, Association for Asian Studies National Meeting, Honolulu, April, 1995. Panel Organizer, American Political Science Association National Meeting, Washington,

D.C., September 1993. Conference Coordinator, "China: One Year After Tiananmen," a one-day conference at the

Fletcher School, April, 1990. Program Chair, New England Conference for Asian Studies, The Fletcher School,

Tufts University, 24 October 1987. Co-coordinator, Conference on "New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution," Harvard

University, Fairbank Center, 14-16 May 1987. Co-coordinator, Conference on the "Social Implications of China's Economic Reforms,"

Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 11 May 1985. Workshop and Seminar Series Organizer: Organizer, Workshop on “Hong Kong’s Contribution to the Mainland’s Modernization,”

HKUST, January 2009. Workshops on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, held at the Orient Overseas

Container Lines, Wanchai, Hong Kong, 2005- Social Science Dinner Seminar Series, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,

1997-2005.


Initial Organizer and Co-Director, "Current Events Workshop," a monthly workshop at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1989-1991.

Media Consultant: Ambrica Corporation, two Educational TV specials on China, 1991-1996. The Koppel Report, "Tragedy at Tiananmen: The Untold Story," ABC Special, aired on 27

June 1989. General Service: Member, Social Science Panel, Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), University Grants

Committee (UGC), Hong Kong, September 2006. Member, Working Group on Migration and Development, International Committee on

Migration and Development Research, Social Science Research Council, 2006- Member, Study Group, "Constructive Engagement: Does it Work?" Council on

Foreign Relations, New York, 1995-97. External Reviewer for the Presidential Review Committee for the Joint Centre for Asia

Pacific Studies, University of Toronto-York University, November 1990. Service at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology A. Division of Social Science

• Chair, Post-Graduate Committee, 1997-1998 • Chair, Academic Review Committee, 2004-2006, 2007- 2008, 2009- • Chair, Search Committee in Political Economy, 2005, 2006 • Chair, Divisional Seminar Series Committee, 2003-2005.

B. School of Humanities and Social Science

• Associate Dean for PG Affairs, 2006-2008 • Chair, School Research Committee, 2004- • Chair, Appointment and Substantiation Committee, 2005-2007 • Member, Executive Committee, 2005-

C. University-level Committees

• Member, University Appointment and Substantiation Committee, 2006-2008 • Member, University Committee on Scheduling, 2007-2008 • Member, Senate Research Committee, 2005- • Member, Chair Professor Committee, 2006-2007 • Member, Student Affairs Committee, 2004-2006 • Honorary Degrees Committee, 1998-2000, 2009- • University Orator, 2005- • Member, Steering Committee, Division of the Environment