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Published Articles
‘The Best are yet to Come:’ State Programs, Domestic Resistance and Reverse Migration of High-level Talent to China
David Zweig, Kang Siqin and Wang Huiyao
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; Center for China’s Globalization
Abstract
Reverse migration has mitigated the brain drain for many Asian countries. But can developing countries actually bring […]
ABC News Website July 1, 2022 With Extensive Quotes by David Zweig
Xi hails Hong Kong’s autonomy but with a major caveat: Beijing has final say
By Karson Yiu
July 01, 2022, 5:35 AM
HONG KONG — In a speech celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, Chinese President Xi Jinping strongly reaffirmed the territory’s autonomy under the promise of “One Country, Two Systems” but with one very strong caveat: Beijing has full jurisdiction and Hong Kong must respect that.
“One Country, […]
Will Taiwan be the next Ukraine? For Beijing, Russia’s difficult war offers a cautionary tale.
March 14, 2022 4:02 am
By David Zweig
David Zweig is professor emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
If Xi Jinping was thinking of making a move on Taiwan, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he’ll likely be thinking again. For the Chinese president, the war […]
China aggressively recruited foreign scientists. Now, it avoids talking about those programs
Information on “talent programs” that drew U.S. scrutiny has disappeared
Dennis Normile
Science (magazine) A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 375, Issue 6578.
20 January 2022, 2:30pm:
Article contains quotes from Dr. David Zweig
The criminal charges against Harvard University chemist Charles Lieber—and dozens of others ensnared in the U.S. Department of Justice’s China Initiative—have put a spotlight on […]
Do Overseas Returnees Excel in the Chinese Labour Market?
The China Quarterly, 247, September 2021, pp. 875–897
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2021
Zaichao Du, Yuting Sun, Guochang Zhao and David Zweig
Abstract
Overseas study is a global phenomenon and a major business internationally. But does overseas study pay off? Using data from the 2015 China Household Finance […]
Is Sino–American Scientific Collaboration a Thing of the Past?
Boston College Center for International Higher Education
No. 108, Autumn 2021
David Zweig
ABSTRACT: A laudable component of Sino–US rapprochement after 1978 has been collaborative research. But China’s aggressive effort to benefit from its scientific diaspora, the cutting-edge technology that has
gravitated to China from the United States, and America’s new perception of China as […]
Are China’s “Sea Turtles” Becoming “Seaweed”? A Changing Job Market
No. 106 Spring Issue 2021
David Zweig and Zaichao Du
ABSTRACT: Analysts of China’s “reverse migration” largely ignore returning, short-term MA students, who comprise close to 70 percent of all returnees, seeing them as less significant.
Drawing on surveys of the past 15 years, this article makes four points:
Reverse entrepreneurial migration in China and India: The role of the state
World Development
Volume 138, February 2021, 105192
David Zweig, Kellee S. Tsai, Alwyn Didar Singh
ABSTRACT: China and India have significant overseas populations that constitute global talent, and both countries recognize that reverse migration of diasporic talent can contribute to domestic economic development. This study compares China and India’s capacity to encourage […]
US-China relations: Pompeo’s bomb-throwing Taiwan shift leaves Biden in bind with Beijing
David Zweig
South China Morning Post
18 January 2021, 1:00am:
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By putting Taiwan’s status regarding the United States and China at the top of President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy agenda, he has introduced a serious roadblock to improved relations between the incoming administration and Beijing
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is probably strutting around and feeling his oats, having accomplished several goals simultaneously with his decision to lift all unofficial constraints on US-Taiwan relations in effect as of 2021.
No doubt he […]
To get young Hongkongers to take up mainland job opportunities, build trust and avoid politics
- Those who want to work on the mainland will go, but the government should not expect a one-off policy to resolve anti-mainland sentiment among Hong Kong youths
- Young people need to know the benefits and risks of working on the mainland, as well as the practical, psychological and emotional issues they might face
In her recent […]
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Books
The War for Chinese Talent in America
A new book by David Zweig
Forthcoming next summer from the Asia Shorts Series of the Association for Asian Studies, distributed by Columbia University Press
Abstract:
One way […]
The Rise of a New ‘Trading Nation’
Zweig, David Stephen
China, the Developing World and the New Global Dynamic / Edited by Lowell […]
Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981
David Zweig
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989
SYNOPSIS: During and after the Cultural Revolution, radical leaders in the Chinese Communist Party tried […]
New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution
Edited by William A. Joseph, Christine P.W. Wong, and David Zweig
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991
SYNOPSIS: Since the Cultural Revolution, data have […]
China’s Search for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of 1989
Ogden, Suzanne; Hartford, Kathleen; Sullivan, Lawrence; Zweig, David
SYNOPSIS: Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents […]
China’s Brain Drain to the United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars in the 1990s
Zweig, David Stephen; Chen, Changgui
SYNOPSIS: This study presents data on the factors behind Chinese students’ decisions about return. Based on analytical methods, […]
Freeing China’s Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era
David Zweig. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, c1997
SYNOPSIS: A comprehensive analysts of China’s rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, […]
Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages
David Zweig. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002
国际政治经济学与中国的全球化
Zweig, David; 陈志敏
21世纪的中国是全球化高歌猛进的中国。2001年，中国终于加入了贸易组织。2003年，中国成为了全球第一大外国直接投资接受国。2004年，中国超越了日本，成为了第三贸易国。在中国国内，社会主义市场经济制度基本成型，行政体制改革不断深入，社会主义民主政治建设成为重要的议事日程。所有这一切的变化既是中国全球化的表征，也在一定意义上是中国全球化的结果。
China’s Reforms and International Political Economy
Edited by David Zweig and Chen Zhimin. London: Routledge, 2007
PREFACE: Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong […]
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Book Chapters
Rural Industry: Constraining China’s Leading Economic Sector
Zweig, David Stephen
China’s Economic Dilemmas in the 1990s: The Problem of Reforms, Modernisation and Interdependence: […]
Struggling Over Land in China: Peasant Resistance After Collectivization, l966-l986
Zweig, David Stephen
Struggling Over Land in China: Peasant Resistance After Collectivization, l966-l986
SYNOPISIS: Peasant rebellions are uncommon. “Everyday […]
U.S.‑China Relations and Human Rights: The Changing Nature of a Bilateral Relationship
Zweig, David Stephen
Building Sino-American Relations: an analysis for the 1990s / Edited by William T. […]
The ‘Externalities of Development’: Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict?
Zweig, David
Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and resistance / Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark […]
Transnational or Social Capital? Returnee Versus Local Entrepreneurs
Vanhonacker, Wilfried; Zweig, David Stephen; Chung, Siu Fung
China’s Domestic Private Firms: […]
Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China
Zweig, David Stephen
Chung, Siu Fung
Grass-roots Democracy in India and China: the Right to […]
The Mobility of Chinese Human Capital: The View from the United States
Zweig, David Stephen
The Movement of Global Talent: […]
海歸還是海待? 海外回國留學生的就業問題研究
Zweig, David Stephen
Han, Donglin
中国留学人才发展报告, 2009 / 王辉耀编; 苗丹国, 程希副编. 北京市 : 机械工业出版社, 2009, p.279-294
内容简介:《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》是国内外众多研究中国留学人才问题的学者、专家，以及在出国留学管理和服务岗位上长期关注这一问题的工作人员合作的结晶。
《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》编写人员既有“海归”和在外留学人员，也有不具留学经历的本土学者，他们对中国留学人才问题的关注和研究，既有历史学和社会学的审视，也有政治学和经济学的考察，构成了一个具有相对合理知识结构的团队。
《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》既有宏观概述，也有个案分析；既有基于社会调查进行的实证研究，也有对档案资料的发掘和梳理；既有具体工作实践中的认知积累和理论总结，也有学术研究的批判反思和观点提炼。
《中国留学人才发展报告(2009)》最后的《出国留学60年大事概览（1949～2009）》是迄今为止最全面、最准确、最完整的一份对于新中国出国留学活动60年重大事件的史料记录，对于研究中国当代留学问题具有重要的参考价值。
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Extracts from Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981
Zweig, David Stephen
Contemporary Chinese Society and Politics / Vol. 1/ Edited by Andrew Kipnis, Luigi Tomba, Jonathan Unger. […]
To the Courts or to the Barricades: Can New Political Institutions Manage Rural Conflict?
Zweig, David Stephen
Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, / Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2010, p.123-147
SYNOPSIS:
This bestselling […]
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Book Reviews
How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People. Kate Xiao Zhou
