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MagnifyJean C. Oi, PhD
Director, Stanford China Program; William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; and Senior Fellow, FSI
Department of Political Science
Stanford University
616 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305-26044
Research Interests
Political economy and the process of reform in transitional systems, with particular focus on corporate restructuring and fiscal reform, including the tax-for-fee system in China's countryside
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Reports
Journal Articles
- Patterns of Corporate Restructuring in China: Political Constraints on Privatization
Jean C. Oi
China Journal (2005) - Elections and Power: The Locus of Decision Making in Chinese Villages
Jean C. Oi
China Quarterly vol. 162 (2000)
- The Role of the Local State in China's Transitional Economy
Jean C. Oi
China Quarterly vol. 144 (1995) - Reform and Urban Bias in China
Jean C. Oi
The Journal of Development Studies vol. 29, 4 (1993) 
Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism in China
Jean C. Oi
World Politics vol. 45, 1 (1992)
Peasant Households Between Plan and Market: Cadre Control Over Agricultural Inputs
Jean C. Oi
Modern China vol. 12, 2 (1986)
Peasant Grain Marketing and State Procurements: China's Grain Contracting System
Jean C. Oi
China Quarterly vol. 106 (1986)
Commercializing China's Rural Cadres
Jean C. Oi
Problems of Communism vol. 35, 5 (1986)
Communism and Clientelism: Rural Politics in China
Jean C. Oi
World Politics vol. 32, 2 (1985)
Books & Book Chapters
Going Private in China: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform
Jean C. Oi
Shorenstein APARC, distributed by the Brookings Institution Press (2011)
Growing Pains: Tensions and Opportunity in China's Transformation
Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle, Xueguang Zhou
Shorenstein APARC (2010)
Fiscal Crisis in China's Townships: Causes and Consequences
Jean C. Oi, Elizabeth J. Perry, Merle Goldman
Harvard University Press in "Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China" (2007)
Chinese Firms Under Transformation: Corporate Restructuring, Employee Layoff and Manager Turnover in 1990s
Jean C. Oi, Harland Prechel
Elsevier JAI Press in "Politics and Neoliberalism: Structure, Process and Outcome" (2007)
At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-building in Republican Shanghai
Jean C. Oi, Nara Dillon
Stanford University Press (2007)
Corporate Restructuring and Social Security in State Owned Enterprises: Lessons from China
Jean C. Oi, David A Kelly, Ramkishen Rajan
World Scientific Publishing Co in "India-China: Managing Globalization" (2006)
Old Problems for New Leaders: Institutional Disjunctions in Rural China
Jean C. Oi, Yun-han Chu, Chih-cheng Lo, Ramon H. Myers
Cambridge University Press in "The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress" (2004)
Bending without Breaking, The Adaptability of Chinese Political Institutions
Jean C. Oi, Nicholas C. Hope, Dennis Tao Yang, Mu Yang Li
Stanford University Press in "How Far Across the River? Chinese Policy Reform at the Millennium" (2003)- Realms of Freedom in Post-Mao China
Jean C. Oi, William C. Kirby
Stanford University Press in "Realms of Freedom in Modern China" (2003) 
Property Rights and Economic Reform in China
Jean C. Oi, Andrew G. Walder
Stanford University Press (1999)
Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform
Jean C. Oi
University of California Press (1999)
The Evolution of Local State Corporatism
Jean C. Oi, Andrew G. Walder
Harvard University Press in "Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China" (1998)- The Collective Foundation of Rapid Rural Industrialization
Jean C. Oi, Eduard B. Vermeer, Frank N. Pieke, Woei Lien Chong
ME Sharpe in "Cooperative and Collective in China's Rural Development: Between State and Private Interest" (1997) - Economic Development, Stability, and Democratic Village Self-Governance
Jean C. Oi, Suzanne Pepper, Maurice Brosseau, Tsang Shu-ki
Hong Kong University Press in "China Review 1996" (1996) 
Chinese Agriculture: Modernization but at What Costs
Jean C. Oi, Thomas W. Robinson, Zhiling Lin
American Enterprise Institute: The Chinese and Their Future: Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong (1994) - Rational Choices and the Attainment of Wealth and Power in China's Countryside
Jean C. Oi, David S G Goodman, Beverley Hooper
Longman Cheshire in "China Quiet Revolution: New Interactions Bewtween State and Society" (1994) - Shandong
Jean C. Oi, Pierre-Etienne Will
University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in "Nourish the People: State Civilian Granaries in China, 1650-1850" (1992) - Mobilization and Participation: The Case of China
Jean C. Oi, Myron L. Cohen
ME Sharpe in "Guide to Asian Case Studies in the Social Sciences" (1992) - Fate of the Collective After the Commune, The
Jean C. Oi, Deborah S. Davis, Ezra Vogel
Harvard University Press in "Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen: The Impact of Reform" vol. 7 (1990) 
State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government
Jean C. Oi
University of California Press (1989)
The Chinese Village, Inc.
Jean C. Oi, Bruce Reynolds, Ilpyong J. Kim
Paragon Press: "Chinese Economic Policy" (1988)- Politics in China's Local Grain Reserve System
Jean C. Oi, Edward K.Y. Chen, Steve S.K. Chin
University of Hong Kong Centre of Asian Studies in "Development and Change in China" (1981)
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