Andrew Walder

Andrew Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology; a director emeritus of Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), and a Freeman Spogli Institute Senior Fellow. He is an expert on the sources of conflict, stability and change in communist regimes, and his current research focuses on the impact of China's market reforms on income inequality and career opportunity. He is also conducting historical research on the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1969, with an emphasis on the Beijing Red Guard movement during 1966 and 1967.

Before coming to Stanford in fall 1997, Walder was a professor of sociology at Harvard. He was also a professor and head of the Division of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1995-1997. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan.

Curriculum Vitæ

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RESEARCH AREAS

Political Sociology; Stratification and Mobility; China Studies

OTHER APPOINTMENTS/ORGANIZATIONS

Director-Emeritus, Shorenstein APARC; FSI Senior Fellow and Professor of Sociology

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Books:

  • Fractured Crusade: The Beijing Red Guard Movement (In preparation, expected completion 2007).
  • The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006 (editor, with Joseph W. Esherick and Paul G. Pickowicz).
  • Property Rights and Economic Reform in China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999 (editor, with Jean C. Oi).
  • Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998 (editor).
  • China's Transitional Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 (editor).
  • The Waning of the Communist State: Economic Origins of Political Decline in China and Hungary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995 (editor).

Recent Papers:

  • “Factional Conflict at Beijing University, 1966-1968.” The China Quarterly 188 (December 2006): 1023-1047.
  • “Ambiguity and Choice in Political Movements: The Origins of Beijing Red Guard Factionalism.” American Journal of Sociology 112: 3 (November 2006): 710-750.
  • “Political Office and Household Wealth: Rural China in the Deng Era.” The China Quarterly 186 (June 2006): 357-376 (first author, with Litao Zhao).
  • “Tan Lifu: A ‘Reactionary’ Red Guard in Historical Perspective.” The China Quarterly 180 (December 2004): 965-988.
  • “The Party Elite and China’s Trajectory of Change.” China: An International Journal 2 (September 2004): 189-209.  Reprinted in The Chinese Communist Party in Reform, edited by Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Zheng Yongnian. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 15-32.
  • “Elite Opportunity in Transitional Economies.” American Sociological Review 68:6 (December 2003): 899-916.
  • “The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside: Scope, Timing, and Human Impact.” The China Quarterly 173 (March 2003): 82-107 (first author, with Yang Su).
  • “清理階級隊伍：文化革命的内幕,” (Cleansing the Class Ranks: The Hidden Face of the Cultural Revolution.” 社會科學 (Hong Kong Journal of Social Science) 24 (Winter 2003): 1-26.
  • “Income Determination and Market Opportunity in Rural China, 1978-1996.” Journal of Comparative Economics 30:2 (June 2002): 1-22.
  • "Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite." (co-authored with Bobai Li) American Journal of Sociology, 2001.
  • "Politics and Life Chances in a State Socialist Regime: Dual Career Paths into the Urban Chinese Elite, 1949 to 1996." (co-authored with Bobai Li) American Sociological Review, 2000
  • "Property Rights and Economic Reform in China." (co-edited with Jean Oi) 1999
  • "Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China." 1998


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