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Sun Min
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Alyssa Vine
Associate Director of Media Relations
Xiaobo Lu
Professor of Political Science
Xiaobo Lu, Professor of Political Science, joined the Barnard faculty in 1994. In addition to his teaching duties for the Department of Political Science, he is affiliated with the Human Rights Studies Program at Barnard.
Professor Lu teaches such courses as "Asian Politics," "Politics of Development in East Asia," "Introduction to Comparative Politics," and "Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Politics." He has been a recipient of the Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching at Barnard College.
Professor Lu's research interests include Chinese politics and society, political corruption and governance, and the political economy of transition from state socialism. His research and scholarship have been supported by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), the Pacific Cultural Foundation, The Asia Foundation, and the International Political Science Association.
Professor Lu serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Political Science and on the senior editorial board of Crime, Law, and Social Change.
Selected Publications
Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China, with T. Bernstein (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
"Transition, Globalization, and Changing Industrial Relations in China," Industrial Relations in the Age of Globalization: Labor, Management, and the State in Comparative and Historical Perspective, R. Sil and C. Candland, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Cadres and Corruption: the Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
Promise and Problems of Old and New Democracies, editor (New York: The Academy of Political Science, 2000).
"Taxation without Representation: Chinese State and Peasants in the New Reform Era," with T. Bernstein, The China Quarterly, No. 163 (September, 2000): 111-32.
"Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneurs, and the State in Transition: Organizational Corruption in China," Comparative Politics Vol. 32, No. 3 (2000): 273-294.
"The Political Foundation of Chinese Style Gradualism: A Paradox of Too Strong Private Interests," with C. Henning, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics Vol. 156, No. 1 (2000): 35-59.
"Organizational Involution and Sociopolitical Reform in China," with L. Dittmer, Informal Politics in East Asia, L. Dittmer, H. Fukui, and P. Lee, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
"Transition from State Socialism and State-Labor Relations in China," in Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South, F. Adams, S. Gupta and K. Mengisteab, eds., Macmillan, (1999): 251-73.
"From Rank-Seeking to Rent-Seeking: Changing Administrative Ethos and Corruption in Reform China," Crime, Law and Social Change Vol. 32, No. 4 (1999): 347-70.
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EDUCATION:
BA, Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages, China
MA, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Beijing
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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Comparative politics