Prof. LI, Lianjiang Department of Government and Public Administration - CUHK

Prof. LI, Lianjiang

Professor

BA and MA (Nankai); MA and PhD (Ohio State U.)

 

Introduction

Department of Government and Public Administration, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 8/2006 – present

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Li Lianjiang
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  Research and Teaching Interests:
 
  • Comparative Politics
  • Chinese Politics
  • Quantitative Methods of Political Analysis
  • Comparative Political Philosophy
  • Social Movements
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

“Distrust in Government and Preference for Regime Change in China,” Political Studies. Published online on April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719892166

Kevin J. O’Brien, Lianjiang Li, Mingxing Liu, “Bureaucrat-Assisted Contention in China,” Mobilization, Vol. 25, No. 5 (2020), pp. 663-676. DOI 10.17813/1086-671X-25-5-663

“The Cadre Resignation Tide in the Wake of the 18th Party Congress,” China:An International Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 (August 2019), pp. 188-199. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/732783/

Shupeng Lyu and Lianjiang Li (correspondence author), “The Dual Effect of Economic Development on Trust in the Central Government: Evidence from Two Waves of a National Survey in China,” China Review, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May 2018), pp. 65-85. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26435648)

“Reassessing Trust in the Central Government: Evidence from Five National Surveys.” China Quarterly, No. 225 (March 2016), pp. 100-121. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741015001629)

“The Magnitude and Resilience of Trust in the Center: Evidence from Interviews with Petitioners in Beijing and a Local Survey in Rural China,” Modern China, Vol. 39, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 3-36 (DOI:10.1007/s11109-010-9111-3)

Lianjiang Li, Mingxing Liu, and Kevin J. O’Brien, “Petitioning Beijing: The High Tide of 2003-2006,” China Quarterly, No. 210 (June 2012), pp. 313-334 (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741012000227)

“Distrust in Government Leaders, Demand for Leadership Change, and Preference for Popular Elections in Rural China,” Political Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 291-311 (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-010-9111-3#page-1)

“Rights Consciousness and Rules Consciousness in Contemporary China,” China Journal, No. 64 (July 2010), pp. 47-68 (http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?hid=107&sid=84b01402-080a-48a0-b520-ae13ccf40772%40sessionmgr113&vid=3&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=52223323) ). Reprinted in Tony Saich (ed.), Political Governance in China (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015), pp. 85-108. Chinese translation by DUAN Haiyan (当代中国的权利意识与规则意识) appears in 《中国社会公共安全研究报告》 (Annual Research Report on Social and Public Security in China) (2014), pp. 3-20.

Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien, “Protest Leadership in Rural China,” China Quarterly, No. 193 (March 2008), pp. 1-23 (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?iid=1809132). Reprinted in Peter Hayes Gries and Stanley Rosen (eds.), Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market (London and New York: Routledge Publisher, 2010), pp. 85-108. Chinese version in Xiao Tangbiao (ed.), 《群体性事件研究》 (Research on Mass Incidents), Series on Research in Chinese Social Stability, Vol. 2 (Shanghai: Xuelin Chubanshe, 2011), pp. 126-141

“Political Trust and Petitioning in the Chinese Countryside,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 40, No. 2 (January 2008), pp. 209-226 (http://chinesesites.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/cp/2008/00000040/00000002/art00005)

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (April 2005), pp. 235-259 (doi: 10.1177/0010414004272528). Reprinted in Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger (eds.), Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics, Vol. 4 (London and New York: Routledge Publisher, 2009), pp. 121-142. Reprinted in Yongnian Zheng, Yiyi Lu, and Lynn White III (eds.), Politics of Modern China, Vol. 3 (London: Routledge, 2009). Chinese translation by ZHANG Qingjin appears in Jean Hung and Hsin Chi Kuan (eds.), 《中外名學者論21世紀的中國》 (Studies on Beginning of the 21st Century China by Chinese and Western Scholars) (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2009), pp. 657-676

“Political Trust in Rural China,” Modern China, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 2004), pp. 228-258 (doi:10.1177/0097700403261824). Chinese translation by FENG Keli appears in Jean Hung and Hsin Chi Kuan (eds.), 《中外名學者論21世紀的中國》 (Studies on Beginning of the 21st Century China by Chinese and Western Scholars) (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2009), pp. 635-655.

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China,” China Journal, No. 51 (January 2004), pp. 75-96 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182147). Reprinted in Neil Diamant, Stanley Lubman, and Kevin O’Brien (eds.), Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 31-53

“The Empowering Effect of Village Elections in China,” Asian Survey, Vol. 43, No. 4 (July-August 2003), pp. 648-662 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/as.2003.43.4.648). Reprinted in Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, and Jonathan Unger (eds.), Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics, Vol. 4 (London and New York: Routledge Publisher, 2009), pp. 51-64. Chinese translation by HU Kang and HU Rong appears in Xu Yong and Xu Zengyang (eds.), 《乡土民主的成长:村民自治研究20年集萃》 (The Growth of Rural Democracy: A Selection of Papers on Villagers’ Self-government Published in the last 20 years) (Wuhan: Huazhong Normal University Press, 2006), pp. 249-67

“The Politics of Introducing Direct Township Elections in China,” China Quarterly, No. 171 (September 2002), pp. 704-723 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009443902000438h)

“Elections and Popular Resistance in Rural China,” China Information, Vol. XV, No. 2 (2001), pp. 1-19 (tables missing). China Information, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (2002), pp. 89-107 (doi: 10.1177/0920203X0101500201)

“Support for Anti-Corruption Campaigns in Rural China,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 10, No. 29 (November 2001), pp. 573-586 (DOI:10.1080/10670560120075019)

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Accommodating ‘Democracy’ in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China,” China Quarterly, No. 162 (June 2000), pp. 465-489 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000008213). Reprinted in Larry Diamond and Ramon H. Meyers (eds.), Elections and Democracy in Greater China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 101-125. Reprinted in Yongnian Zheng, Yiyi Lu, and Lynn White III eds., Politics of Modern China, Vol. 4 (London: Routledge, 2009).

“The Two-Ballot System in Shanxi Province: Subjecting Village Party Secretaries to a Popular Vote,” China Journal, No. 42 (July 1999), pp. 103-118 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2667642)

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Campaign Nostalgia in the Chinese Countryside,” Asian Survey, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3 (May/June 1999), pp. 375-393 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3021204)

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (January 1999), pp. 167-186 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/422143). Reprinted in Stephen P. Osborne (ed.), Public Management: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, Volume 4: Explaining the Scope of Public Management (London: Routledge. 2001), pp. 227-248

Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien, “Villagers and Popular Resistance in Contemporary China,” Modern China, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 1996), pp. 28-61 (doi:10.1177/009770049602200102). Reprinted in Frank N. Pieke (ed.), People’s Republic of China, Volume 2 (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, November 2002), pp. 351-384. Ranked 4th of 50 Most-Cited Articles as of 1 June 2013 by Modern China (http://mcx.sagepub.com/reports/most-cited)

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “The Politics of Lodging Complaints in Rural China,” China Quarterly, No. 143 (September 1995), pp. 756-783 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000015034)

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Chinese Political Reform and the Problem of ‘Deputy Quality’,” China Information, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (Winter 1994), pp. 20-31 (doi: 10.1177/0920203X9300800302)

“Direct Township Elections,” in Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman (eds.), Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 97-116 (text) and pp. 352-59 (notes)

“Direct Election of Township Heads: Perspectives of Chinese Peasants,” in John Wong and Yongnian Zheng (eds.), China’s Post-Jiang Leadership (Singapore and London: Singapore University Press and World Scientific, 2002), pp. 231-260

Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien, “The Struggle over Village Elections,” in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 129-144 (text) and pp. 382-389 (notes). An excerpt of this paper appears in Human Rights Dialogue, Volume 9, 1997, pp. 9-11, the Carnegie Council on International Affairs

Journal Papers

“Driven to Protest: China’s Rural Unrest,” Current History, Vol. 105, No. 692 (September 2006), pp. 250-54

“Divide and Rule: Beijing Fears an Organized Citizenry,” TIME Asia Magazine, Vol. 167, No. 10, 13 March 2006, p. 23

“Corruption, Protest, and Democracy in China” (translated into Spanish), Vanguardia, No. 2 (July-September 2002), pp. 66-70

Book Reviews

Social Change in Contemporary China: C. K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion edited by Wenfang Tang and Burkart Holzner (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 2007). Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter 2007), pp. 140-141

Public Opinion and Political Change in China by Wenfang Tang (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). China Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 215-216

Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China by Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), China Quarterly, No. 177 (March 2004), pp. 216-217

Journal Articles

李連江,劉明興,“吏紳共謀:中國抗爭政治中一隻看不見的手”(The Collusion between Government Functionaries and Local Notables: An Invisible Hand in the Chinese Contentious Politics),《二十一世紀》,2016年10月號(總第157期),第57-67頁

“差序政府信任”(Hierarchical Trust in Government),《二十一世紀》, 第131期(6月號, 2012),108-114頁。http://dspace.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/handle/2006/393905

Books

《戏说统计续编:文科生的量化操作指南》(北京:当代世界出版社, 2019)。253页

《在學術界謀生存》(香港:中文大學出版社, 2018)。241页

《戏说统计:文科生的量化方法》(北京:中国政法大学出版社, 2017)。318页

《不发表 就出局》(北京:中国政法大学出版社, 2016)。249页

《新保守主義》(台北:扬智文化事業股份有限公司, 1994)。128頁

Journal Papers

“社会科学研究方法的用户视角”,《实证社会科学》, 第1卷(2016年6月),23-32页

“政治学研究中的命名与正名----‘依法抗争’一词的由来”,《中大政治学评论》, 第8辑(2015),1-4页

于建嵘,李连江,“政治发展下一步:县政改革”,《领导者》, 第18期 (10月, 2007),107-17页

李連江,熊景明,“從政府主導的村民政治邁向民主選舉”,《二十一世紀》,第50期 (1998),151-56頁

Book Chapters

“當代中國大陸的權利意識與規則意識”,載楊開煌编,《中國改革開放卅十年論文集》(台北:海峽學術出版社, 2009), 277-305頁

“中國農民的國家觀與依法抗爭”,載張茂桂、郑永年編,《兩岸社會運動與民主化》(台北:新自然主義公司, 2003),281-298頁

李連江、欧博文,“村民政治:構想與現實”,載陈明通、郑永年编,《兩岸基層選舉與政治文化變遷》,台湾研究基金會叢書二之三(台北:月旦出版社,1998),325-48頁

李連江、歐博文,“當代中國農民的依法抗爭”,載吳國光編,《九七效應:香港、中國與太平洋》(香港:太平洋世紀研究所,1997),頁141-70。摘要發表在《明報》, 1996年12月11日,c6頁

“克里普克的称理论”,载车铭洲主编,《西方现代语言哲学》(成都:四川人民出版社,1989),468-498页

Newspaper Articles

看不懂,是个难能可贵的境界”,《中国青年报》,2017年7月31日,第2 版

“散金碎银”,《中国青年报》,2017年2月17日,第7 版

“叔本华谈智慧与幸福之路”,《光明日报》,2017年3月7日,第16版

“看不懂,就是译错了”,《中国青年报》2015年2月17日,第7 版http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2015-02/17/nw.D110000zgqnb_20150217_3-07.htm

“‘想学’和‘真想学’”,《中国青年报》2012年9月10日,第2 版http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2012-09/10/nw.D110000zgqnb_20120910_3-02.htm

“学者的KISS境界:政治学研究方法漫谈”,《中国社会科学报》,2010年2月25日,第5版”

Entries of the Encyclopedia of Oriental and Western Philosophies

《东西方哲学大辞典》(蒋永福、吴可、岳长龄主编)关于西欧中世纪哲学的若干条目(约20万字)。南昌:江西人民出版社,2000

Edited Book

李连江 主编,郭正林、萧唐镖副主编,《村委会选举观察》(天津:天津人民出版社, 2001)。866页

Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit(《人生智慧箴言》)。北京:商务印书馆,2017。239页

Judith Shklar, Montesquieu (《孟德斯鸠》)。北京:中国政法大学出版社,2018。189页

Cass R. Sunstein, On Rumors (《谣言》)。 张楠迪扬译,李连江校。北京:中信出版社,2016。156页

Melanie F. Manion,“Survey Research in the Study of Contemporary China: Learning from Local Samples” (“当代中国研究中的问卷调查研究:从地方样本中学习”),周凤华译,李连江校。《华中师范大学学报》(人文社会科学版),Vol. 53, No. 5 (October), 117-126页

Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market (《民主與市場》)。張光、馬俊峰 譯,李連江 校。台北:桂冠圖書有限公司,1999。288頁

Daniel Berman, Words Like Colored Glass: The Role of the Press in Taiwan's Democratization Process (《筆桿裡面出民主》)。台北:時報出版公司,1995。388頁

John Dunn, Locke (《洛克》)。台北:聯經出版事業有限公司,1990。110頁

车铭洲 编,李连江 译《西方现代语言哲学》。天津:南开大学出版社,1989。427页

2005. “Popular Contention and Its Impact in Rural China” (with Kevin O’Brien) is one of two co-winners of the Sage Award for the best paper in comparative politics delivered at the 2004 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association.

2020. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, (CUHK14601820)

2015. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, (CUHK14613815)

2013. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, (CUHK 446513)

2006. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (CUHK2440/06).

2004. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKBU2120/04).

2004-2005. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

2002. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKBU2025/02H).

2002. Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty Research Grant (FRG/01-02/II-13P).

2001. Research and Writing Grants (Grant No.: 00-66594-000), Program on Global Security and Sustainability, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

2000. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant (HKBU2012/00H).

1999. Hong Kong Baptist University, Faculty Research Grant (FRG/99-00/II-03).

1997. The Asia Foundation, Grant No. 06-713-06-07501.

1997. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Earmarked Research Grant (RGC/97-98/75) (Co-investigator, Kevin J. O’Brien).

1995. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Program on Peace and International Cooperation Research and Writing Grant (Co-Principal Investigator, Kevin J. O’Brien).

1994. The Henry Luce Foundation, United States-China Cooperative Research Program Award, Co-writer of proposal and co-investigator (Project director, Kevin J. O’Brien at Ohio State University; co-director, Che Mingzhou at Nankai University, China).