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DR CHEN AN
NUS HONORARY FELLOW (新加坡国立大学荣誉院士)
DEPARTMENT of POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Email:
polchena@nus.edu.sg
Tel:
(65) 6516 3972
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(65) 6779 6815
Homepage:
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Brief Introduction

Chen An (陈安) (LL.M., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.) is currently an Honorary Fellow (Political Science) at the National University of Singapore and a former senior research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, China). He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1993.


Teaching Areas

PS2248 Chinese Politics
PS4228 Comparative Democratic Politics
PS6316 Graduate Seminar: Politics in Contemporary China


Current Research

The current research project addresses the topic: “The Social Dynamics of Political Transformation in China.” It aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the changing nature of Chinese politics and its socioeconomic basis and to explore the trajectory of China’s political development.


Research Interests


  • China’s political and economic reforms
  • China's rural politics
  • China’s social stratification, class politics, and democratization
  • China’s modern political history
  • Comparative study of political developments in East Asia
  • Models of democratic transition and consolidation
  • Democratic theory

Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

  • The Principles of Democratic Politics (Taipei: Linking Publishing Company, 2023).  (Three Volumes); About 1,800 pages; 陳安/著《民主政治原理》(臺北: 聯經出版公司, 2023)(共三卷, 約1,800 頁), forthcoming.
  • The Transformation of Governance in Rural China: Market, Finance, and Political Authority (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 391 pages.
  • Restructuring Political Power in China: Alliances and Opposition, 1978-1998 (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999), 279 pages.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

  • “The Impact of Land Requisition on Peasant Life in China,” Modern China, vol. 46 no. 1 (January 2020), pp. 79–110.
  • “How Has the Abolition of Agricultural Taxes Transformed Village Governance in China? Evidence from Agricultural Regions,” China Quarterly, no. 219 (September 2014), pp. 715–35. (Published by Cambridge University Press).
  • “The Reform of the Township and its Impact on China’s Rural Politics,” Journal of US-China Public Administration, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 2013), pp. 1-25. (Published by David Publishing Company, USA). 
  • "The Politics of the Shareholding Collective Economy in China’s Rural Villages," Journal of Peasant Studies (Published online: 7 October 2015), 12,125 words. (Published by Routledge).
  • “The 1994 Tax Reform and Its Impact on China’s Rural Fiscal Structure,” Modern China, vol. 34, no. 3 (July 2008), pp. 303-343 (Published by Sage Periodicals Press, Thousand Oaks, California).
  • “The Failure of Organizational Control: Changing Party Power in the Chinese Countryside,” Politics & Society, vol. 35, no.1 (March 2007), pp. 145-179. (Published by Sage Periodicals Press, Thousand Oaks, California).
  • “Secret Societies and Organized Crime in Contemporary China,” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 39, no. 1 (February 2005), pp. 77-107. (Published by Cambridge University Press; affiliated with Cambridge University).
  • “Rising Class Politics and its Impact on China’s Path to Democracy,” Democratization, vol. 10, no. 2 (Summer 2003), pp. 141-162. (Published by Frank Cass, London).
  •  “China’s Changing of the Guard: The New Inequality,” Journal of Democracy, vol. 14, no. 1 (January 2003), pp. 51-59. (Published by the National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press, USA).
  • “Capitalist Development, Entrepreneurial Class, and Democratization in China,” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 117, no. 3 (Fall 2002), pp. 401-422. (Published by The Academy of Political Science, New York).
  •  “Socioeconomic Polarization and Political Corruption in China: A Study of the Correlation,” The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 18, no. 2 (June 2002), pp. 53-74. (Published by Frank Cass, London).
  • "Democratic Reform of Management Structures in China's Industrial Enterprises," Politics & Society, vol. 23, no. 3 (September 1995), pp. 369-410. (Published by Sage Periodicals Press, Thousand Oaks, California).

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