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Published Articles
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 […]
Canada’s duty lies in freeing Kovrig and Spavor from China. This means letting Meng go
- The suffering of the two Canadians, in detention since December 2018, makes a powerful case for Ottawa to prize pragmatism and sympathy over politics
- Should Canada choose to, a sound legal case can be made for the release of the Huawei executive wanted by a US determined to blunt China’s tech challenge
South China […]
US-China tensions expected to escalate further after Donald Trump promises action over Hong Kong
- Relations between the two sides are likely to carry on worsening after the US President said he would end the city’s preferential status after Beijing ‘smothered its freedom’
- Observers predict spiral of retaliation will continue and question whether trade negotiations will be able to carry on
South China Morning Post (SCMP)
30 May 2020 09:02 PM
by Sarah Zheng (with quotes from Dr. David Zweig)
China and the US have little room to defuse tensions after Washington announced it would end Hong Kong’s special status, observers believe.
On Friday […]
What lies behind Beijing’s imposition of a national security law in Hong Kong? Fear, not arrogance
- China’s leaders are facing challenges on multiple fronts – from the economy to global criticism of their handling of Covid-19
- Beijing believes that another summer of protests in Hong Kong and what it perceives as hostile US activities in the city cannot be tolerated
South China Morning Post (SCMP)
30 May 2020 06:30 AM
by Dr David Zweig
Many people believe that Beijing’s decision this week to introduce […]
AMERICA CHALLENGES CHINA’S NATIONAL TALENT PROGRAMS
BY DAVID ZWEIG AND SIQIN KANG | No. 4 | MAY 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Thousand Talents Program (TTP) was created by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2008 to overcome the brain drain of Chinese talent that has seen many of the best Chinese scholars and researchers take up residency in Canada, the United Kingdom, and particularly the United States.
The goal of Li Yuanchao, a reformist former CCP Politburo member who created the […]
Beijing is getting tough on the democracy movement, but at what cost to Hong Kong?
- Beijing has recognised that, under the current conditions, it can’t keep Hong Kong’s opposition forces under control
- Something has to give, and that something is China’s promise to grant Hong Kong civil liberties and universal suffrage
It’s not […]
‘The Best are yet to Come:’ State Programs,Domestic Resistance and Reverse Migration of High-level Talent to China
January 16, 2020 | Journal of Contemporary China
David Zweig, Kang Siqin & Wang Huiyao
ABSTRACT: Reverse migration has mitigated the brain drain for many Asian countries. But can developing countries actually bring back their best overseas talent? How can this studymeasure the quality of that talent? And, if the best are not returning, why not? Is the ‘institutional culture’ within the scientific and academic institutions the […]
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Books
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 […]
Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony
Edited by David Zweig and Yufan Hao, London : Routledge, 2016
ABSTRACT: The remarkable performance of the Chinese economy in the last three […]
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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: Multidisciplinary Perspectives […]
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
