Vivienne Shue, BA (Vassar College), B.Litt., MA (Oxon), Ph.D. (Harvard), FBA, Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary China Studies (elected 2002) and Director of the Contemporary China Studies Programme. Professor Shue has a particular interest in state-society relations in China, in China's evolving institutions of local government, forms of popular participation and modes of political contention. Her recent writings have focused on questions of political authority and legitimation, politics and economic development, charity, protest and popular religion. Her publications include: Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality (co-authored with Christine Wong, 2007); Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County (co-authored with Marc Blecher, 1996); State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (co-edited with Joel Migdal and Atul Kohli, 1994); The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic (1988); Peasant China in Transition: The Dynamics of Development toward Socialism (1980), and a number of essays in journals and edited collections including most recently "The Quality of Mercy: Confucian Charity and the Mixed Metaphors of Modernity in Tianjin", Modern China, October 2006; "Global Imaginings, the State's Quest for Hegemony, and the Pursuit of Phantom Freedom in China", in Kinnvall and Jonsson eds, Globalization and Democratization in Asia: The Construction of Identity (2002), and "Legitimacy Crisis in China?," in Gries and Rosen eds, State and Society in 21st Century China (2004).
vivienne.shue@sant.ox.ac.uk