- “War in Ukraine: Background, Context, Prospects and Implications,” UCSC Institute for Social Transformation, March 4, 2022; video available
- “Do Street Protests Work in China,” ChinaFile, June 14, 2017
- “Taiwan’s 9 in 1 Elections,” panel discussion, Foreign Policy Research Institute, December 3, 2014
- “Chinese Vice President Xi Visits Iowa: Branding the PRC’s Next Leader” (with Zhang Gang), Foreign Affairs web site, February 14, 2012
- “Hu Jingcao on Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin,” my interview in The China Beat (December 6, 2010) with the maker of two historical documentaries that cross the US-China divide. Chinese-language version
- “Political and Social Reform in China: Alive and Walking” (with George J. Gilboy), The Washington Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 143-164
- Interview with Angilee Shah of The China Beat (February 26, 2008) on homeowner protests in Shanghai. Reprinted in Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth L. Pomeranz, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, eds., China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance (Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), pp. 19-21
- “Cong meiri yi bei ‘fennu’ dao ‘dimian zuozhan’” [From a ‘Daily Cup of Outrage’ to the ‘Ground War’], 21 Shiji Jingji Baodao [21st Century Economic Report] November 1, 2004
- “How Taiwan’s Neighborhood Chiefs Work To Improve Their Communities,” TaiwanPlus, December 26, 2022
- “La «línea roja» de China,” La Razón (Madrid), August 4, 2022
- “Las ventajas de la disuasión,” La Razón (Madrid), May 24, 2022
- “Pretty Lady Cadres: New Data Shows Limits on Women’s Advancement in China’s Leadership,” ChinaFile, December 21, 2020
- “In China’s War on the Coronavirus, a Community Is Besieged,” New York Times, February 28, 2020
- “West’s fascination with Tiananmen Square events not shared in China,” UCSC News, June 4, 2014
- “China: A Democracy is Built,” Financial Times, March 7, 2011
Reviews
- The China Journal, review of Beibei Tang, China’s Housing Middle Class: Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), Vol. 82, Issue 1 (July 2019), 181-182
- The Wall Street Journal, review of Bruce J. Dickson, The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival (Oxford, 2016), August 2, 2016 [link]
- The China Journal, review of Luigi Tomba, The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China (Ithaca: Cornell, 2014), #76 (July 2016), 124-126
- The Wall Street Journal, review of Louisa Lim, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited (Oxford, 2014) and Rowena Xiaoqing He, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China (Palgrave, 2014), May 31, 2014, p. C7 [link] [full text]
- The China Journal, review of Thomas Heberer and Christian Göbel, The Politics of Community Building in Urban China (London: Routledge, 2011), #70 (July 2013), 219-223
- Journal of East Asian Studies, review of S. Frederick Starr, ed., Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), Vol. 6, #2 (May-August 2006), pp. 315-318
- Journal of Politics, review of Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), Vol. 67, #3 (August 2005), pp. 936-937
- Far Eastern Economic Review, review of Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin (New York: Crown Publishers, 2004), Vol. 168, #2 (January/February 2005), pp. 70-72
- The China Journal, review of Linda Wong and Norman Flynn, eds., The Market in Chinese Social Policy (Houndsmills, UK: Palgrave, 2001), #48 (July 2002), pp. 216-217
Other Projects
I’ve provided assistance (and even some voice-over) on the historical documentaries of filmmaker Hu Jingcao: