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From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45 (2023)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2023). From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 46(4), 806-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2023.2239066

This article studies the Sino-Foreign Salt Inspectorate, which was imposed upon a weak Chinese government by an international consortium from 1913 till 1949. The founder of the Salt Inspectorate was Sir Richard Dane, a high-level civil servant in the... Read More about From Colonial India to Semi-Colonial Republican China: Imaginaries and Realities of Civil Service and State-Building in Salt Administration, 1912–45.

Pockets of Effectiveness: Afterwards and New Beginnings (2023)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2023). Pockets of Effectiveness: Afterwards and New Beginnings. In S. Hickey (Ed.), Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa (235-244). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864963.003.0009

This commentary reflects critically on the contribution that this volume makes to the study of PoEs and state capacity in the Global South, and prompts a rethinking of some of the author’s own decades old work on Republican-era China. It lauds the wa... Read More about Pockets of Effectiveness: Afterwards and New Beginnings.

Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy (2021)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2021). Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy. In S. M. Rai, M. Gluhovic, S. Jestrovic, & M. Saward (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (405-420). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.53

Although it is widely recognized that performance permeates politics, there is surprisingly little agreement on how politics in performance plays out across different political and cultural environments. Focusing on the script as both written text an... Read More about Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy.

Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2019). Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa. In C. Hartmann, & N. Noesselt (Eds.), China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-intervention towards Stabilization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429422393-3

This chapter reflects on the ways in which China’s official rhetoric on its approach towards and activities in Africa have developed since the mid-1950s. It suggests that there are three different ‘layers’ to this rhetoric that broadly reflect three... Read More about Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa.

State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance (2019)
Book
Strauss, J. (2019). State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108569163

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese ma... Read More about State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance.

Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World (2019)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2019). Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World. The China Quarterly, 239, 804-812. https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574101900105X

On a random Tuesday in May 2019, I found myself in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport, waiting in a fortunately short and quickly moving immigration line prior to a return flight home. Just to the right was an immigration desk with what appeared... Read More about Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World.

Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth (2019)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2019). Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth. Twentieth-century China, 44(2), 253-258. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2019.0023

Although May Fourth has received an extraordinary amount of scholarly attention for decades, its contours and periodization remain blurred and contested. This article suggests that the significance of May Fourth resides in the ways in which it establ... Read More about Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth.

Communism and Political Terror (2014)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J. (2014). Communism and Political Terror. In S. A. Smith (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook on the History of Communism. Oxford University Press

Introduction. From Going Out (zou chuqu) to Arriving In (desembarco): Constructing a New Field of Inquiry in China-Latin America Interactions (2012)
Book Chapter
Strauss, J., & Armony, A. C. (2012). Introduction. From Going Out (zou chuqu) to Arriving In (desembarco): Constructing a New Field of Inquiry in China-Latin America Interactions. In J. Strauss, & A. C. Armony (Eds.), From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century (134-156). Cambridge University Press

Introduction: gender, agency and social change (2011)
Book Chapter
Evans, H., & Strauss, J. (2011). Introduction: gender, agency and social change. In H. Evans, & J. Strauss (Eds.), Gender in Flux: Agency and its Limits in Contemporary China (1-10). Cambridge University Press