Kellee S. Tsai
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Kellee S. Tsai
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Prior to joining HKUST, Professor Tsai was Vice Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-13), Director of the East Asian Studies Program (2008-10), and Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her non-academic experience includes working at Morgan Stanley and consulting for the World Bank and various government subcontractors. Tsai is regarded as an authority on informal finance in China and the impact of adaptive informal institutions on endogenous institutional change. Her current research concerns party-state capitalism in China, the surveillance industry, and the political economy of remittances and ethnic foreign direct investment in China and India.
SELECTED PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
- Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations under Authoritarianism, co-edited with Szu-chien Hsu and Chun-chih Chang (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2021).
- State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle, co-edited with Barry Naughton (New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
- CAPITALISM WITHOUT DEMOCRACY: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007). Chinese translation published by Zhejiang People’s Publishing House, Hangzhou, China, 2012.
- Japan and China in the World Political Economy, co-edited with Saadia Pekkanen (New York: Routledge, 2005).
- Nongyehua yu minjian jinrong: Wenzhou de jingyan [Rural industrialization and informal finance: Wenzhou’s experience], co-authored with Wang Xiaoyi and Li Renqing (Taiyuan: Shanxi jingji chubanshe, 2004).
- BACK-ALLEY BANKING: Private Entrepreneurs in China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002; paperback in 2004). Chinese translation published by the Center for Contemporary China Series, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.
RECENT ARTICLES
- “Picking Places and People: Centralizing Provincial Governance in China,” (co-authored with Warren Wenzhi Lu), China Quarterly (December 2021): 957-986.
- “Upgrading Big Brother: Local Strategic Adaptation in China’s Security Industry,” (co-authored with Jingyang Huang), Studies in Comparative International Development (October 2021).
- “Party-State Capitalism in China,” (co-authored with Margaret Pearson and Meg Rithmire), Current History 120, 827 (September 2021): 207-213.
- “Structural Power, Hegemony, and State Capitalism: Limits to China’s Relative Economic Power,” (co-authored with Mingtang Liu), Politics & Society 49, 2 (June 2021): 235-267.
- “Reverse Entrepreneurial Migration in China and India: The Role of the State,” (co-authored with David Zweig and A. Didar Singh), World Development 138 (February 2021).
- “Inter-governmental Vertical Competition in China’s Urbanization Process,” (co-authored with Warren Wenzhi Lu), Journal of Contemporary China 28, 115 (2019): 99-117.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Institutional Adaptability in China: Local Developmental Models Under Changing Economic Conditions,” (co-authored with Xiaoxiao Shen), World Development 87 (November 2016): 107-127.
- “When Shadow Banking Can be Productive: Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in China,” Journal of Development Studies (September 2016): 1-25.
- “Cosmopolitan Capitalism: Local State-Society Relations in China and India,” Journal of Asian Studies 75, 2 (May 2016): 335-361.
- “Adaptive Informal Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change in China,” World Politics 59 (October 2006): 116-141.
