Juan Wang

Book:

• The Sinews of State Power: The Rise and Demise of The Cohesive Local State in Rural China (New York: Oxford University Press, March 2017).

Review by Daniel Litte here. 

Articles:

• "Political Resources and Divergent Court Empowerment: Subnational Comparison in China,"  (with Wenting Liang), Modern China, forthcoming. 
• "What's Wrong with Corruption? Messages from Confessions in China," Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 69, No. 3 (2018), pp. 447-463.
• "Managing Social Stability: The Perspective of A Local Government in China," Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 15 (2015), pp. 1-25.
• "Shifting Boundaries between the State and Society: Village Cadres as New Activists in Collective Petition," The China Quarterly, Vol. 211 (2012), pp. 697-717.
• “The Political Economy of Earmarked Transfers in a State-Designated Poor County in Western China: Central Policies and Local Responses” (with Mingxing Liu, Ran Tao, & Rachel Murphy), The China Quarterly, Vol. 200 (2009), pp. 973-994
• “The Politics of Poverty Mis-targeting in China,” Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2007), pp. 219-236
• “Going beyond Township and Village Enterprises in Rural China,” Journal of Contemporary China, Issue 14, Vol. 42 (2005), pp. 171-181

Working Papers:

• " 'It's not just about divorce.' Language, Law and State Building in China" (with Hongqin Mu), under review.
• "Negotiating the Authoritarian State: An Organizational Approach" 
• "Lawyers and Corruption Networks in China" (with Ran An)
• "Detention, Law and Agency Control in China"