PROF Julia Strauss' Outputs (3)

Review of: Linking Theory with Practice? Cadre Training and Environmental Governance in China. By Julia Marinaccio. Munich: Oekom. 174 pp. ISBN: 9783962383299 (2023)
Journal Article
Strauss, J. (2023). Review of: Linking Theory with Practice? Cadre Training and Environmental Governance in China. By Julia Marinaccio. Munich: Oekom. 174 pp. ISBN: 9783962383299. The Journal of Asian studies, 82(4), 700-701. https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-10773400

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.