Comparative Environmental Politics and Governance

Public Policy Analysis

Decentralization and Local Governance in China

Politics of Parenthood and Identity

Dissertation: “Environmental Politics at Local Levels in China: Explaining Policy Implementation Gap and Assessing the Implications”, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany. July 2009.

Book: Local Environmental Politics in China: The Gap between Policy and Its Implementation, Beijing: CCTP, 2015 (in Chinese)

Journal Article (selected)

“Anti-intellectualism and Popularism: COVID-19 Pandemic Governance under Trump Administration”, Journal of the Central Institute of Socialism, No.3, 2020 (in Chinese).

“Legitimacy and Environmental Governance: Research Agenda, Paradigm and Resources,” Journal of Theoretical Trends, No.11, 2019 (in Chinese).

“How to Explain the Decentralized Paradox in Environmental Governance: A Perspective from Blame Avoidance Behavior Theory,” Comparative Economic & Social Systems No.4, 2019(in Chinese).

“Understanding Blame Politics in China’s Decentralized System of Environmental Governance: Actors, Strategies and Context,” China Quarterly, Vol.231, 2017.

“Deliberative Democracy and the ‘Giddens Paradox’ of Global Climate Change Governance,” Contemporary World and Socialism, No.4, 2016 (in Chinese).

Environmental Governance and Democratic Transition: The Environmental Movement in Soviet Union and East European Communist Countries,” Journal of Theoretical Trends, No.4, 2015 (in Chinese).

“The Supervision Mechanism of Environmental Governance: From the perspective of Local People’s Congress and CPPCC,” New Horizon, No.3, 2015 (in Chinese).

“Moral incentive, Party Disciplining and the Local Environmental Policy Implementation Gap,” Comparative Economic &Social Systems, No.2, 2015 (in Chinese).

“Regional Restriction on Environmental Impact Assessment Approval in China: The Legitimacy of Environmental Authoritarianism,” Journal of Cleaner Production, No.92, 2015 (with Xiao Zhu, Lei Zhang and Arthur Mol).

“The Policy Characteristics of Environmental Policies Framework and Implementation Gap in China’s Environmental Politics,” Teaching and Research, No.5, 2014 (in Chinese).

“Regime Type and Environmental Governance Performance,” Journal of Theoretical Trends, No. 5, 2014 (in Chinese).

“Perverse Incentive Structure and Policy Implementation Gap in China’s Local Environmental Politics,” Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2013, 15:1.

“Political Incentives and Local Environmental Governance under a ‘Pressurized System’,” Comparative Economic &Social Systems, No.3, 2013 (in Chinese).

“How to Protect Environment by Institutions? Central- Local Relations in China’s Environmental Governance”, National Academy of Development and Strategy, RUC, Working paper series No.26, 2014 (with Donglin Han, in Chinese).

“Environmental Nationalism and Sino-US Environmental and Climate Diplomacy,” US-China Young Scholar’s Forum, Carter Center, Atlanta, Dec. 2017.

“Blame and Central-Local relations in China’s environmental politics,” Workshop on “Environmental Health Challenges to China’s Rise,” Council on Foreign Relations, New York Nov. 2016.

“Consuming Environmentalism: Why and How Was Environmentalism Selected as the Ideology of Environmental Protests in Urban China?” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2016 Annual Conference, Seattle, March 2016.

“Decentralization Discourse and Legitimacy Construction in China’s Environmental Politics,” “workshop on China Environmental Governance,” Brown University, March 2015.

“Dreaming for Clean Environment: The Role of Political Discourse in China’s Environmental Politics,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2014 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 2014.

“Policy Architecture of ‘State-in-Society’: Eco-System Governance in India and China,” VII Annual International Conference on Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India, August 2012 (with Sony Pellissery and Biju Abraham).

“Perverse Incentive Structure and Policy Implementation Gap in China’s Local Environmental Politics,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2012 Annual Conference, Toronto, March 2012.

“Analysis Local Environmental Policies Implementation Gap and Its implications in China,” Paper accepted and presented at the International Conference of “Implementation on Environmental Policies in Urban and Rural China,” Mülheim, Germany, May 2010.

“Is Environmental Policies Implementation Failures in China Challenging Security and Party-State Legitimacy?,” paper presented at the Nordic Association for China Studies 9th Annul Meeting “China’s Economy, Environment and Education”. Iceland University, June 2009.

“System, Incentive Structure and Environmental Policies Implementation Gap at Local Levels of China: Case Study in Three Cities,” paper presented at the 5th Annual Graduate Seminar on China, Hong Kong Chinese University, January 2009.

Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Society and Natural Resources, Local Environment, International review of Administrative Science, Journal of Development Studies, Urban Policy and Research, China Quarterly, Modern China, Public Administration Review (in Chinese), Comparative Economic & Social Systems (in Chinese), Journal of Nanjing Forestry University (in Chinese).

“How to revise the centralization vs. decentralization dichotomy in China’s local environmental politics study,” Chinese Social Sciences Today, Nov. 21, 2015 (in Chinese).

“Anti-pollution like anti-corruption?” Southern Weekly, Sep. 7, 2016 (in Chinese).

“Pubic participation and water governance,” China Environment, Nov. 23, 2016 (in Chinese).

Democracy and Rule of Law Time, “Environmental governance and local political elites”, July 7, 2017 (in Chinese).

Associated Press, “Revamped environmental law raises hope for cleanup in China”, March 13, 2015.

Los Angeles Times, “China's battle plans in war on air pollution under scrutiny”, September 10, 2014.

Introduction to Environmental Politics

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Introductions to Contemporary Chinese Government and Politics

Environmental Politics and Governance

The Political Sociology of Parenthood