Images of the Outside World: The Impact of Overseas Studies
Conference on 'Foreign-Domestic Linkages in China's International Behaviours,' Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, BC, April 24-25, 2008 Published in: The China Quarterly No. 202 (JUNE 2010), pp. 290-306 Zweig, David; Han, Donglin [...]
A Limited Engagement: Mainland Returnees from Canada
Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, December 2008 Zweig, David Stephen EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: International student exchanges and overseas education can play an important role in building bridges between countries. By living and studying abroad, citizens of [...]
China’s energy anxiety
Conference on Foreign and Security Policy Issues in Asia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Hong Kong, China, 18 March 2013 Zweig, David Stephen SOSC INTRODUCTION: During the two years I spent as an exchange student in [...]
The Peita Debate on Education and the Fall of Teng Hsiao-p’ing
The China Quarterly, v. 73, 1978, p. 140-158 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: During the two years I spent as an exchange student in the People's Republic of China, from October 1974 to July 1976, [...]
Law, Contracts and Economic Modernization: Lessons from the Recent Chinese Rural Reforms
Stanford Journal of International Law, v. 23, 1987, p. 319-364 Zweig, David Stephen; Hartford, Kathleen; Feinerman, James; Deng, Jianxu SUBJECTS: Dispute resolution (Law) -- Analysis Law reform -- Economic aspects Contracts -- Laws, regulations [...]
From Village to City: Reforming Urban-Rural Relations in China
International Regional Science Review, v. 11, 1987, p. 43-58 Zweig, David ABSTRACT: This paper documents the increased urban-rural interaction in China and argues that the new developmental strategy apparently has helped narrow the urban-rural [...]
A Sinologist’s Observations on North Korea
Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, 1989, p. 62-82 Zweig, David ABSTRACT: This report provides reflections on a one-week visit to North Korea in April 1989 by a China scholar who lived in Maoist China. [...]
Developmental Communities’ on China’s Coast: The Impact of Trade, Investment, and Transnational Alliances
Comparative Politics, v. 27, 1995, p. 253-274 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: How does foreign trade and investment affect developing states? Do they create transnational alliances that exploit the countryside and undermine state authority and [...]
To return or not to return? Politics vs. economics in China’s brain drain
Studies in Comparative International Development, v. 32, (1), 1997, SPR, p. 92-125 Zweig, David Stephen ABSTRACT: This study, based on 273 face-to-face interviews with students, scholars, and former residents of China in the United [...]
Undemocratic Capitalism: China and the Limits of Economism
National Interest, Summer '99, Issue 56, p63 10p Zweig, David ABSTRACT: Discusses the political and economic conditions in China. Effort of China leaders to manage the economic difficulties foisted on China by the post [...]