| Books by Dali Yang |
Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China
Stanford University Press, 2004; 2006.
Dali L. Yang
From the Press: In this provocative, important study, Dali Yang examines a wide range of governance
reforms in the People’s Republic of China, including administrative rationalization, divestiture of businesses
operated by the military, and the building of anticorruption mechanisms. The author also analyzes how
China’s leaders have reformed existing institutions and constructed new ones to cope with unruly markets,
curb corrupt practices, and bring about a regulated economic order.
Though still a work in progress, taken together these reforms, Yang argues, have improved the institutional
environment for economic development and altered the landscape for China’s ongoing struggle against
rampant corruption. These measures are also likely to have important implications for the exercise of
governmental authority and for China’s future political development. As China’s role on the world stage
expands, the way the State conducts itself assumes increasing importance not just for those concerned
about the welfare of the Chinese people but also for those interested in China’s role in regional and world
affairs.
Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era
edited by Barry Naughton and Dali L. Yang
Cambridge University Press, 2004
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Despite many predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain unity and gain
international stature since the Tiananmen crisis of 1989. This volume addresses the "fragmentation-
disintegration thesis" and examines the sources and dynamics of China's resilience. Through theoretically
informed empirical studies, the volume's authors look at several key institutions for political integration and
economic governance. They also dissect how difficult policies to regulate economic and social life
(employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities) are
designed and implemented. The authors show that China's leaders have retained authoritarian political
institutions but have also reinforced and modified them and constructed new ones in the light of changing
circumstances. In policy implementation, China's leaders have learned by doing and made significant
adaptations to improve the effectiveness of socioeconomic policies. Institutional and policy adaptations
together have helped shore up political authority and create an environment for rapid growth while
accommodating growing diversity.
Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China
Routledge, 1997
Dali L. Yang
There are wide disparities of wealth between the different regions of China. The result has been increased
tension between ethnic groups and serious divisions between China's provinces. This book offers a
balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in
post-Mao China. The author argues that increasing decentralisation has unleashed much competition and
emulation among local governments. He discusses also the impact on regional disparities and cleavages,
and government efforts to address regional disparities. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that
will remain highly visible on China's political agenda for the foreseeable future.
Calamity and Reform in China:
State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine
Stanford University Press, 1996
China's Great Leap Famine of 1959-61 resulted in 30 million deaths, making it easily the worst famine in
human history. Yet unlike the Cultural Revolution--that other massive catastrophe of Mao's rule--the Great
Leap Famine has received scant attention, partly because most victims of the famine were inarticulate
farmers and partly because many key players in that inglorious era are members of the current elite who
tightly guard the archives. Despite these impediments, the author has marshaled an impressive array of
historical documents, buttressed by social science theories and analytical techniques, to provide the first
book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine.
The Great Leap Famine is important not only because it was one of the worst tragedies in human history,
but also because it furnished the crucial historical motives for dismantling the rural collective institutional
structure in post-Mao China two decades later. The dynamics of the ensuing overall reform, still under way,
cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the Great Leap Famine.
By tracing the causal patterns leading from revolution to famine and then to reform, this book explains much
about how and why the Chinese revolution self-destructed.
CHINA'S REFORMS AT 30: Challenges and Prospects
edited by Dali L Yang (University of Chicago, USA) & Litao Zhao (East Asian Institute, National University of
Singapore, Singapore), World Scientific, Jan 2009, 210pp.
Featuring contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this timely volume analyzes key aspects of
China's reforms and development, such as the financial reform, international trade, leadership succession,
social protests, health care reform and ethnic relationships. It is suitable for China scholars as well as
advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's polity, economy and society.
Contents:
* How to Sustain China's Growth Miracle?
* China's Mounting External Balances
* China's Protest Wave
* The 17th Party Congress and the CCP's Changing Elite Politics
* Diminishing Demographic Dividends
* Towards Universal Coverage
* A New Perspective in Guiding Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century
* Is There an Asian Value?
Stanford University Press, 2004; 2006.
Dali L. Yang
From the Press: In this provocative, important study, Dali Yang examines a wide range of governance
reforms in the People’s Republic of China, including administrative rationalization, divestiture of businesses
operated by the military, and the building of anticorruption mechanisms. The author also analyzes how
China’s leaders have reformed existing institutions and constructed new ones to cope with unruly markets,
curb corrupt practices, and bring about a regulated economic order.
Though still a work in progress, taken together these reforms, Yang argues, have improved the institutional
environment for economic development and altered the landscape for China’s ongoing struggle against
rampant corruption. These measures are also likely to have important implications for the exercise of
governmental authority and for China’s future political development. As China’s role on the world stage
expands, the way the State conducts itself assumes increasing importance not just for those concerned
about the welfare of the Chinese people but also for those interested in China’s role in regional and world
affairs.
Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era
edited by Barry Naughton and Dali L. Yang
Cambridge University Press, 2004
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Despite many predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain unity and gain
international stature since the Tiananmen crisis of 1989. This volume addresses the "fragmentation-
disintegration thesis" and examines the sources and dynamics of China's resilience. Through theoretically
informed empirical studies, the volume's authors look at several key institutions for political integration and
economic governance. They also dissect how difficult policies to regulate economic and social life
(employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities) are
designed and implemented. The authors show that China's leaders have retained authoritarian political
institutions but have also reinforced and modified them and constructed new ones in the light of changing
circumstances. In policy implementation, China's leaders have learned by doing and made significant
adaptations to improve the effectiveness of socioeconomic policies. Institutional and policy adaptations
together have helped shore up political authority and create an environment for rapid growth while
accommodating growing diversity.
Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China
Routledge, 1997
Dali L. Yang
There are wide disparities of wealth between the different regions of China. The result has been increased
tension between ethnic groups and serious divisions between China's provinces. This book offers a
balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in
post-Mao China. The author argues that increasing decentralisation has unleashed much competition and
emulation among local governments. He discusses also the impact on regional disparities and cleavages,
and government efforts to address regional disparities. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that
will remain highly visible on China's political agenda for the foreseeable future.
Calamity and Reform in China:
State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine
Stanford University Press, 1996
China's Great Leap Famine of 1959-61 resulted in 30 million deaths, making it easily the worst famine in
human history. Yet unlike the Cultural Revolution--that other massive catastrophe of Mao's rule--the Great
Leap Famine has received scant attention, partly because most victims of the famine were inarticulate
farmers and partly because many key players in that inglorious era are members of the current elite who
tightly guard the archives. Despite these impediments, the author has marshaled an impressive array of
historical documents, buttressed by social science theories and analytical techniques, to provide the first
book-length treatment of the political causes and consequences of the Great Leap Famine.
The Great Leap Famine is important not only because it was one of the worst tragedies in human history,
but also because it furnished the crucial historical motives for dismantling the rural collective institutional
structure in post-Mao China two decades later. The dynamics of the ensuing overall reform, still under way,
cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the Great Leap Famine.
By tracing the causal patterns leading from revolution to famine and then to reform, this book explains much
about how and why the Chinese revolution self-destructed.
CHINA'S REFORMS AT 30: Challenges and Prospects
edited by Dali L Yang (University of Chicago, USA) & Litao Zhao (East Asian Institute, National University of
Singapore, Singapore), World Scientific, Jan 2009, 210pp.
Featuring contributions from internationally renowned scholars, this timely volume analyzes key aspects of
China's reforms and development, such as the financial reform, international trade, leadership succession,
social protests, health care reform and ethnic relationships. It is suitable for China scholars as well as
advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's polity, economy and society.
Contents:
* How to Sustain China's Growth Miracle?
* China's Mounting External Balances
* China's Protest Wave
* The 17th Party Congress and the CCP's Changing Elite Politics
* Diminishing Demographic Dividends
* Towards Universal Coverage
* A New Perspective in Guiding Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century
* Is There an Asian Value?
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