| Linda Chelan Li specializes in intergovernmental relations and political
economy in China. She is Founding Fellow of the (former) Centre for Research
on Provincial China in Australia and member of the Editorial Board of the
journal, Provincial China. Her article proposing a new analytical framework to
interpret Chinese central-provincial relations, published in Political Studies
in 1997, won the Harrison Prize (best paper) award for the year. She earned
her doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and was
Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu (2000), and Fulbright Fellow
at University of California, Berkeley (2005-06). She had an early career with
the Hong Kong government and several Legislative Councillors, and has been a
regular commentator on local and Chinese politics in the local and
international media. She recently completed a major research on the politics of the rural tax reform in China and played a leading role in two collaborative projects on the changing Chinese state and responsible government in Asia. A steady stream of edited volumes and monographs is in the pipeline.
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| Recent publications |
- (ed.) The Chinese State in Transition: Processes and Contests in Local China, London: Routledge, 2009.
- 'Working for the Peasants? - Strategic Interactions and Unintended Consequences in the Chinese Rural Tax Reform', The China Journal, No. 57 (January 2007): 89-106.
- 'State and Market in Public Service Provision: Opportunities and Traps for Institutional Change in Rural China', The Pacific Review, 21, 3 (September 2008): 257-278.
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| Research interests |
- Central-Local relations and politics: China, Hong Kong
- Public finance and government reforms in China
- Institutional change processes
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| Teaching interests |
- Chinese Political economy and politics
- Inter-governmental Relations
- Public finance and insitutional change
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