Xiaobo Lü
Professor
Comparative Politics and Foreign Government
Professor Lü currently is Director of the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. He also is a member of the faculty at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and at the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Schedule:
On leave Fall 2008–Spring 2010.
| Address: |
Fall 2008–Summer 2010:
Director, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing
Tower A, Room 607; Tsinghua Science Park, Chengfu Road
Haidian District, Beijing, 100084
Tel: 010-8215-1107, E-mail XL29@columbia.edu
406 Lehman Hall, Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Tel: 212-854-4440, Fax: 212-854-3024,
E-mail: xlu@barnard.edu
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Research Interests
Political Economy of Transition from State Socialism
Political Corruption and Governance
Chinese Politics and Society
Courses
| POLS V 1501 |
Introduction to Comparative Politics |
| POLS BC 3425 |
Colloquium on the Politics of Development in East Asia |
| POLS BC 3500 |
Colloquium on the Political Economy of Corruption and its Control |
| POLS V 3620 |
Introduction to Contemporary Chinese Politics |
| POLS W 4435 |
Political Corruption and Governance |
| POLS BC 3761x-2y |
Senior Research Seminar in Comparative Politics (2 semesters) |
POS G 8471
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Chinese Politics in Comparative Perspective (graduate course; syllabus in PDF) |
Education
| Ph.D. |
University of California at Berkeley, 1994, Political Science |
| M.A. |
Foreign Affairs College, Beijing, 1985, Political Science/Law |
| B.A. |
Sichuan Institute of Foreign Studies, China, 1982, English Language
& Literature |
In the News
Columbia Alumni Association announcement of the March 20, 2009 launch of the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing
A March 23, 2009 Columbia Spectator article on Columbia's first two global centers: in Beijing, China and Amman, Jordan
A May 17, 2002 Barnard Campus News article about Xiaobo Lu's three-year appointment as Director of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Honors, Awards and Grants
- Individual Project Fellowship, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), 1998-99.
- National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1998-99.
- Faculty Research Grant, Barnard College/Columbia University, 1997-98.
- Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching, Barnard College, 1996-97.
- Research Grant, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei, 1997-98.
- Nomination by UC Berkeley for the best Ph.D. dissertation in comparative
politics (the Gabriel Almond Award), the American Political Science Association,
1994-95.
- Outstanding Young Scholar Dissertation Scholarship, The China Times Cultural
Foundation (US), 1991-92.
- John Simpson Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 1990-91.
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, U.C. Berkeley, 1988-89.
- The Asia Foundation Scholarship, 1985-86.
- Stein Rokkan Fellowship, the International Political Science Association, 1985.
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Foreign Affairs College, 1985.
Curriculum vitæ: December 2005
Books
Taxation Without Representation in Contemporary Rural China, co-author Thomas Bernstein, New York: Cambridge University Press, April 2003.
(See also the Barnard News Center article.)
Cadres and Corruption: the Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
(See also the announcement in Barnard Campus News.)
Edited Volumes
Promise and Problems of Old and New Democracies, New York: The Academy
of Political Science, 2000.
Danwei: the Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective,(with Elizabeth Perry), M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
"Taxation without Representation: Chinese State and Peasants in the New
Reform Era" (with Thomas Bernstein), the China Quarterly, no.163
(September, 2000), pp.111-32.
"From Rank-Seeking to Rent-Seeking: Changing Administrative Ethos and
Corruption in Reform China," Crime, Law and Social Change, in v. 32, n. 4 (1999), pp. 347-70.
"Transition, Globalization, and Changing Industrial Relations in China," in Rudra Sil and Christopher Candland, eds. Industrial Relations in the Age of Globalization: Labor, Management, and the State in Comparative and
Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2001.
"Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneurs, and the State in Transition: Organizational Corruption in China," Comparative Politics, v.32, n. 3 (2000), pp. 273-294.
"The Political Foundation of Chinese Style Gradualism: A Paradox of Too Strong Private Interests" (with Christian Henning), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, v.156, n.1 (2000), pp. 35-59.
"Organizational Involution and Sociopolitical Reform in China" (with Lowell Dittmer), in Lowell Dittmer, Haruhira Fukui and Peter Lee, eds., Informal Politics in East Asia, Cambridge Unversity Press, 2000.
"Transition from State Socialism and State-Labor Relations in China," in Francis Adams, Satya Gupta and Kidane Mengisteab, eds. Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South, Macmillan, 1999, pp. 251-73.
"The Politics of Peasant Burden in Reform China," Journal of Peasant Studies, v.25, n.1 (1997), pp. 113-38.
"Structural Transformation of the Chinese Work Unit: Macropolitical Implications of Micropolitical Change" (with Lowell Dittmer), China Studies, n.3, (Spring 1997), pp. 111-43.
"Enterprise Paternalism and Transition to Market Socialism: the Political Economy of State Sector Reform in Former State Socialist Systems," Mondes en Développement, n.99 (1997), pp. 41-56.
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