Lu Xiaobo  

Xiaobo Lu
Professor
 

Professor Lü also is a member of the faculty at the East Asian Institute and at the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
 
 
Schedule:   Fall   Spring   On leave Fall 2007-Spring 2008

Address:   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
 
at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 939 I.A.B., Columbia University:
420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-7912, Fax: 212-749-1497, E-mail XL29@columbia.edu

Research Interests
Political Economy of Transition from State Socialism
Political Corruption and Governance
Comparative Politics
Chinese Politics and Society

Courses
POLS V 1501 Introduction to Comparative Politics (formerly 3501)
POLS BC 3424 Asian 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 3761-2 Senior Research Seminar in Comparative Politics (2 semesters)
POS G 8471
 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
A May 17, 2002 Barnard Campus News article about Xiaobo Lü'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.
'Cadres and Corruption' 'Taxation Without Representation'

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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