John P. Burns

Government Capacity and the Hong Kong Civil Service

(Oxford University Press, 2004)

“This book examines, in detail, the political context within which the civil service operates, including the role of the central government in Hong Kong SAR civil service policy making, the changing leadership role of Hong Kong's administrative elite, and attempts by the government to boost executive accountability since 2002.”

Cheng Li, editor

China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy

Brookings Institution Press, 2008

In China's Changing Political Landscape, leading experts examine the prospects for democracy in the world's most populous nation.

Kenneth Lieberthal

Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform

(W.W. Norton, 2004)

“A masterful portrait of how China’s political system works. Lieberthal’s knowledge of the Chinese bureaucracy’s structure-formal and informal- and its operational culture is unrivaled in breadth and depth.”

–Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University

Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu, eds.

Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space

(Routledge, 2005)

“Restructuring the Chinese City brings together contributions from leading scholars on urban China to shed important light on critical issues of recent change in Chinese cities. The book will focus on how the new economy and changing society have (re)shaped urban space and place, and how the interplay among global, national and local forces comes together to reconfigure Chinese urban Space.”

Andrew Mertha

The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China

(Cornell University Press, 2005)

"This very well-written book sets out a clear argument and follows it through the maze of China's bureaucracy, arriving finally at persuasive conclusions. I have never read such a vivid description of how Chinese bureaucracies connect to each other, from the center to the local level. Andrew C. Mertha provides an extremely lucid explanation of why some types of intellectual property rights are relatively well enforced and others are not."

--Joseph Fewsmith III, Professor and Director of the East Asia Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Boston University

Andrew Mertha

China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change

(Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2008)

While China has roared ahead with water control and hydropower megaprojects, Western scholarship has been slow to update its stubborn paradigms. This book takes a big step in bringing theory more in line with the complex realities of political pluralism and protest found in China today."

--Tim Oakes, University of Colorado