Linda Chelan Li

Professor Linda Chelan Li is professor at the Department of Public and Social Administration in City University of Hong Kong and a specialist in intergovernmental relations, political economy and administrative reforms in China. She is author of Centre and Provinces: China, 1978-1993. Power as non-zero-sum (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998, 2002) and Rural Tax Reform in China: Policy processes and institutional change (Routledge 2011), and editor of The Chinese State in Transition: Processes and contests in local China (Routledge 2008), and Towards Responsible Government in East Asia: Trajectories, intentions and meanings (Routledge 2009). Her work has appeared in major journals including Political Studies, China Quarterly, China Journal, Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Modern Asian Studies, China Information, Public Administration and Development, Policy and Society and prestigious Chinese journals including China Social Sciences and Sociological Research. The Political Studies paper, proposing a new analytical framework to interpret Chinese central-provincial relations, was awarded the Harrison Prize (1997) as the best paper published in the year. Currently she is working on intergovernmental zoning, local government reforms in China and Hong Kong-Mainland relations.

Professor Li earned her doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1995), and was Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu (2000), and Fulbright Fellow at University of California, Berkeley (2005-06). She had an early career with the Hong Kong government in the 1980s.

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Email: salcli@cityu.edu.hk