
Xueguang Zhou
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Sociology
Bio
Xueguang Zhou is the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, a professor of sociology, and a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His main area of research is on institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society, focusing on Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relationships.
One of Zhou's current research projects is a study of the rise of the bureaucratic state in China. He works with students and colleagues to conduct participatory observations of government behaviors in the areas of environmental regulation enforcement, in policy implementation, in bureaucratic bargaining, and in incentive designs. He also studies patterns of career mobility and personnel flow among different government offices to understand intra-organizational relationships in the Chinese bureaucracy.
Another ongoing project is an ethnographic study of rural governance in China. Zhou adopts a microscopic approach to understand how peasants, village cadres, and local governments encounter and search for solutions to emerging problems and challenges in their everyday lives, and how institutions are created, reinforced, altered, and recombined in response to these problems. Research topics are related to the making of markets, village elections, and local government behaviors.
His recent publications examine modes of governance in the Chinese bureaucracy (Journal of Sociological Research, 2012, with Hong Lian), the relationship between the central authority and the Chinese bureaucracy (Open Times, 2013), and the processes of muddling through in policy implementation (the China Journal, 2013, with Hong Lian, Leonard Ortolano and Yinyu Ye); and the development of agricultural markets in China (China Quarterly, forthcoming, with Yun Ai). He has recently completed a book manuscript "The Institutional Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach" (in Chinese, 商务印书馆 The Commercial Press, forthcoming).
Before joining Stanford in 2006, Zhou taught at Cornell University, Duke University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a guest professor at Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the People's University of China. Zhou received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University in 1991.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Sociology
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Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Honors & Awards
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Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science (2008-09)
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Guest Professorship, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, Beijing University, & the People's University of China
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Research Grants, National Science Foundation, Citicorp Social Science Research Council, Chiang King-Kao Foundation
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Research Grant, ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
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Spencer Fellowship, Spencer Foundation (1993-94)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica (2004 - Present)
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Member, Academic Advisory Committee, Institute of American Studies, Academia Sinica (2004 - 2007)
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Member, Editorial board, Modern China (2009 - Present)
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Member, Editorial board, Academy of Management Review (2004 - 2010)
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Member, Editorial board, Administrative Science Quarterly (1997 - 2012)
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Member, Editorial board, Management and Organization Review (2004 - 2009)
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Member, Editorial board, China Review (2000 - Present)
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Member, Advisory board, Urban China Research Network, SUNY-Albany (2002 - Present)
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Member, Editorial board, American Sociological Review (1997 - 2000)
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Member, Consulting editorial board, American Journal of Sociology (1997 - 1999)
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Member, Board of Directors, North American Chinese Sociologist Association (1997 - 2000)
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Senior associate editor, Management and Organization Review (2013 - Present)
Program Affiliations
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Center for East Asian Studies
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Stanford University, Sociology (1991)
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M.A., Sociology, Stanford University (1985)
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B.A., Fundan University, P.R. China (1982)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society.
2020-21 Courses
- Introduction to Social Networks
SOC 126, SOC 226 (Aut, Spr) - Workshop: Economic Sociology and Organizations
SOC 315W (Aut, Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (9)
- Curricular Practical Training
SOC 392 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Directed Reading
EASTASN 300 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Directed Research
SOC 391 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Individual Study
SOC 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Research Internship
SOC 395 (Aut, Win) - Senior Thesis
SOC 196 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Directed Research
SOC 191 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Undergraduate Individual Study
SOC 190 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship
SOC 192 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Introduction to Social Networks
SOC 126, SOC 226 (Spr) - Sociological Methodology III: Models for Discrete Outcomes
SOC 383 (Spr) - Workshop: China Social Science
POLISCI 448R, SOC 368W (Spr) - Workshop: Economic Sociology and Organizations
SOC 315W (Aut, Win, Spr)
2017-18 Courses
- Formal Organizations
SOC 160, SOC 260 (Win) - Workshop: China Social Science
POLISCI 448R, SOC 368W (Win, Spr) - Workshop: Economic Sociology and Organizations
SOC 315W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Introduction to Social Networks
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Tianyu Xie
All Publications
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Capitalism without Capital: Capital Conversion and Market Making in Rural China
CHINA QUARTERLY
2014; 219: 693-714
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0305741014000757
View details for Web of Science ID 000342999600005
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Will Demographic Change Slow China's Rise?
JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
2013; 72 (3): 505-518
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0021911813000557
View details for Web of Science ID 000324763900002
- A Behavioral Model of 'Muddling Through' in the Chinese Bureaucracy The China Journal 2013
- Social Science Research on Chinese Organizations in the English Literature A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America 2013; 11
- The Chinese Bureaucracy and the Logic of State Governance in China (in Chinese, “ 国家 治理 逻辑 与 中国 官僚 体制 ”) Open Times ( 开放时代 ) 2013; 3
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The Road to Collective Debt in Rural China: Bureaucracies, Social Institutions, and Public Goods Provision
MODERN CHINA
2012; 38 (3): 271-307
View details for DOI 10.1177/0097700411416216
View details for Web of Science ID 000302991200001
- Children of China's Future YaleGlobal Online 2012
- Sociological Research on Chinese Society Oxford Bibliography in Sociology Oxford University Press . 2012
- The Road to Collective Debt in Rural China : Government Bureaucracies and Public Goods Provision Modern China 2012; 38 (3): 271-307
- Modes of Governance in the Chinese Bureaucracy (in Chinese, “ 中 国政府的治理模式:一个‘控制权’理论” ) Journal of Sociological Research ( 社会学研究 ) 2012
- The Limit of Bureaucratic Power in Organizations: the Case of the Chinese Bureaucracy Research in the Sociology of Organizations 2012; 34: 81-111
- Mobilizational State: Further Exploration in the Institutional Logic of State Governance in China (in Chinese, “ 运动型治理机制:中国国家 治理 的制度 逻辑再思考 ”) Open Times ( 开放时代 ) 2012; 9: 100-120
- State Building and Government Behavior (in Chinese, 国家建设与政府行为 ) edited by Zhou , X., Liu , S., Zhe, X. Beijing: Chinese Social Science Press. 2012; null (null)
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The Autumn Harvest: Peasants and Markets in Post-Collective Rural China
CHINA QUARTERLY
2011: 913-931
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0305741011001068
View details for Web of Science ID 000299762400007
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Status Inconsistency and Product Valuation in the California Wine Market
ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
2011; 22 (6): 1435-1448
View details for DOI 10.1287/orsc.1100.0597
View details for Web of Science ID 000297510200005
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Rethinking Property Rights as a Relational Concept Access to Financial Resources Among Small and Mid-Sized Firms
CHINESE SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
2011; 44 (1): 26-70
View details for DOI 10.2753/CSA2162-0555440104
View details for Web of Science ID 000298813300004
- Authoritarian State and Effective Governance: the Institutional Logic of State Governance in Contemporary China (in Chinese) [ 权威体制与有效治理:当代中国国家治理的制度逻辑 ] Open Times [ 开放时代 ] 2011; 10: 67-85
- Bargaining in the Chinese Bureaucracy (in Chinese) [政府内部上下级部门间谈判的一个分析模型] Social Science in China [中国社会科学] 2011; 5: 80-96
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The Institutional Logic of Collusion among Local Governments in China
MODERN CHINA
2010; 36 (1): 47-78
View details for DOI 10.1177/0097700409347970
View details for Web of Science ID 000273027100003
- Multiple Logics of Institutional Change: Toward an Analytical Framework (in Chinese) [多重逻辑下的制度变迁:一个分析框架] Social Science in China [中国社会科学] 2010 : 132-150
- Growing Pains: Tension and Opportunity in China's Transformation null Shorenstein APARC . 2010; null (null)
- Social Science Research on Chinese Organizations in the English Literature: A Survey (in Chinese) [英文文献中的中国组织现象研究] Journal of Sociological Studies [社会学研究] 2009 ; 6: 145-186
- Transaction Costs, Institutions, and the Duration of Interfirm Contracts in China Research in the Sociology of Work 2009 ; 19: 69-104
- Collusion among Local Governments: The Institutional Logic of a Government Behavior (in Chinese) [基层政府间的“合谋现象”:一个政府行为的制度逻辑] Journal of Sociological Studies [社会学研究] 2008; 6: 1-22
- Intraorganizational Career Advancement and Voluntary Turnover in a Multinational Bank in Taiwan Career Development International 2008 ; 13: 402-424
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Educational stratification in urban China: 1949-94
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
1998; 71 (3): 199-222
View details for Web of Science ID 000075597000002
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STATUS PROCESSES IN ENDURING WORK GROUPS
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
1991; 56 (2): 179-188
View details for Web of Science ID A1991FY60300004