David ZWEIG (PhD, University of Michigan, 1983) Chair Professor of Social Science and Associate Dean of SHSS Office: Room 3385, Academic Building Tel: (852) 2358-7832 Email: sozweig@ust.hk Vitae: PDF

Research Interests

• Chinese Politics and Political Economy
• Rural Development in China
• Sino-American Relations
• International Political Economy
• Returnee Scholars in China
• East Asian International Relations

Representative Publications

1. "Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China," (with Chung Siu Fung), Journal of Contemporary China (Fall 2007).
2. "Learning to Compete: China's Efforts to Encourage a Reverse Brain Drain," International Labour Review (January 2006).
3. "China's Global Hunt for Energy," Foreign Affairs (with Bi Jianhai), Vol. 84, No. 5 (September-October 2005): 25-38.
4. "Globalization and transnational human capital: overseas and returnee scholars to China," (with Stan Rosen and Chen Changgui), The China Quarterly, 179 (September 2004): 735-757.
5. Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Studies in Political Economy, Cornell University Press, 2002.
6. Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
7. Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968-1981 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).
   

Courses Taught

• SOSC 152: Comparative Politics
• SOSC 228: International Relations in East Asia
• SOSC 360: Understanding Chinese Politics
• SOSC 552: International Aspects of China’s Reforms