Professor Vivienne Shue FBA

Chinese politics and society in the 20th and 21st centuries; political economy of development, institutions and practices of the state, local governance, and patterns of state-society interaction

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2008
Subjects: Politics
Sections: Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International Relations
Website: http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/vivienne-shue

Summary

Vivienne Shue is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary China Studies, Fellow of St. Antony's College, and an Associate of the University of Oxford China Centre. As a Marshall Scholar at St. Antony's in the late '60s, she earned the B. Litt. in Politics, later completed the Ph.D. in Government at Harvard and, before returning to Oxford as Director of its Leverhulme Trust supported Contemporary China Studies Programme in 2002, taught courses on Chinese politics and society to undergraduates and graduates at Yale and Cornell for more than twenty-five years. Whilst in the US, she spent one year as a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and received research awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Academy of Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, and many others. She was among the earliest American social scientists invited to conduct field-based research on local-level governance in China in 1979, returning to that country often to observe structural transformations in rural and urbanizing local state systems under reform. Her current research examines certain distinctively 21st century Chinese governance techniques and practices, including high-tech national development planning, especially the spatial and land-use dimensions of nationwide planning for ecology-management using satellite mapping.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Contemporary China Studies, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford

Past appointments

St Antony's College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Contemporary China Studies and Fellow

2012 -

St Antony's College University of Oxford Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary China Studies and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford

2002 -

Cornell University Director, East Asia Program

1999 - 2002

Cornell University Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Chinese Government

1995 - 2004

Cornell University Chair, Department of Government

1987 - 1993

Yale University Dept of Political Science

1976 - 1982

Publications

“Legitimacy Crisis in China?” Routledge Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market, Gries and Rosen eds. 2010 Routledge

“Mao’s China: Putting Politics in Perspective” Maoism at the Grassroots (Brown and Johnson) 2015 Harvard University Press

Peasant China in Transition 1980 University of California Press

The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic 1988 Stanford University Press

State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (with Migdal and Kohli) 1994

Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County (with Blecher) 1996 Stanford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Iain McLean FBA

Public policy; public choice; the history and politics of Union since 1707; fiscal federalism; Scottish, French and American Enlightenment thought; electoral systems and social choice

Professor Philip Pettit FBA

Moral and political philosophy; philosophy of mind; metaphysics

Professor Patrick Le Galès FBA

Public policy, & sociology of the state in Europe; European cities & great global metropolis; Economic sociology/ political economy; Great Britain

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