Jean Oi

William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics and Professor of Political Science
Stanford University

"Political Cross Currents in China's Corporate Restructuring"

Thursday, February 21, 2008
4:15 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center

Biography

Jean Oi is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics, a professor of political science, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is also the director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center's newly established Stanford China Program. Her work focuses on comparative politics, Chinese political economy, and corporate restructuring and governance in Asia. She is currently working on a project that examines restructuring and corporate governance in China's state-owned enterprises. She is also continuing her research on rural China, including work on village and township finances, rural development and debt, and village elections.

Oi is the author of Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (University of California Press, 1999) and State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government (University of California Press, 1989) and is coeditor of Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (Stanford University Press, 1999). With Nara Dillon she edited At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks and State-building in Republican Shanghai (Stanford University Press 2007.)