ZHAN Jing Vivian

Employment

• School of Governance & Policy Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Professor
  2024–Present
• Department of Government & Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, & Professor
  2007–2024
• Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

  Faculty Fellow
  2006–2007

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

  Ph.D., Political Science
  2006
• Foreign Affairs College of China

  Bachelor's, English and International Studies
  2000

2026

• Political Embeddedness and Corporate Strategies in Environmental Enforcement: Evidence from China Environmental Politics
• Does Digital Surveillance Boost Citizen Compliance? Evidence from China Political Psychology
• Transforming Global Critical Minerals Governance: Is a Green New International Economic Order Possible? Third World Quarterly
• When Does Surveillance Trigger Resistance? Public Response to Escalating Digital Control in China Journal of Chinese Political Science
• Selective Control as a Tool of Political Power: Exclusive Interview With Professor Vivian Zhan Current Digest of the Chinese Press
• What can Global South countries do to advance a green transition that is just and transformative? — Opinion Global South World
• Undermining resistance: The governance of participation by multinational mining corporations Environmental Politics

2025

• 专访香港中文大学詹晶教授：资源，谁之诅咒，谁之福祉？ 《政治学人》

2024

• Handbook on Local Governance in China: Structures, Variations, and Innovations Ceren Ergenc and David S.G. Goodman. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. 484 pp. £210.00 (hbk). ISBN 9781800883239 The China Quarterly

2023

• Repenetrating the Rural Periphery: Party Building under China’s Anti-Poverty Campaign Journal of Contemporary China
• Policy Coordination and Selective Corruption Control in China Policy Studies Journal
• Embedded Extraction: The Chinese State’s Response to the Local Resource Curse Palgrave Macmillan
• Does Resource Curse Exist in Political Arenas? (Ziyuan Zuzhou Lilun Zai Zhengzhi Lingyu Chengli Ma?) PSR International Perspectives (Zhengping Guoji Dongtai)
• Environmental Clientelism: How Chinese Private Enterprises Lobby under Environmental Crackdowns The China Quarterly

2022

• The Geopolitics of China’s Overseas Port Investments: A Comparative Analysis of Greece and Pakistan Geopolitics
• Review of River- Sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China China Perspectives
• Did China Experience a ‘Resource Curse’? It Depends on Who You Ask . Sixth Tone
• China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations Cambridge University Press

2021

• Repress or Redistribute? The Chinese State’s Response to Resource Conflicts China Quarterly
• Authoritarian Critical Citizens and Declining Political Trust in China Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)

2017

• Resource Conflict Resolution in China The China Quarterly
• The Art of Political Ambiguity: Top -down Information Asymmetry in Intergovernmental Relations in China Journal of Chinese Governance
• Do Natural Resources Breed Corruption? Evidence from China Environmental and Resource Economics
• The Rise of China and Its International Relations (Zhongguo zhi Jueqi yu Guoji Guanxi) Centre for Catholic Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

2016

• Chinese Economic and Political System (Zhongguo de Jingji yu Zhengzhi Tizhi) the Chinese University Press

2015

• Resource Dependence and Human Capital Investment in China The China Quarterly
• Sharing Resource Wealth for Peace: A Chinese Strategy to Cope with the Resource Curse The Extractive Industries and Society
• How to Break the ‘Resource Curse’ in Social Stability in China – A Case Study Based on the Framework of Profit Sharing (Shehui Wending zhong de ‘Ziyuan Zuzhou’ Puojie – Jiyu Liyi Fenxi Kuangjia de Ge’an Yanjiu) Central Compilation & Translation Press

2013

• Natural Resources, Local Governance, and Social Instability: A Comparison of Two Counties in China China Quarterly
• Strategy for Fiscal Survival? Analysis of Local Extra-budgetary Finance in China Journal Of Contemporary China
• Fiscal Transfer and Local Public Expenditure: Theories, Empirics, and Policy Suggestions (Caizheng Zhuanyi Zhifu yu Difang Zhengfu Gonggong Zhichu Qinxiang: Lilun, Shizheng yu Zhengce Jianyi) People’s Publishing House

2012

• Mainland China-Hong Kong- Southeast Asia Trade and Direct Investment Relations: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis (Zhongguo Neidi-Xianggang-Dongmeng de Maoyi he Zhijie Touzi Guanxi: Chubu Shuju Fenxi) Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Filling the gap of formal institutions: the effects of Guanxi network on corruption in reform-era China Crime Law and Social Change

2011

• Explaining Central Intervention in Local Extra-Budgetary Practices in China Asian Survey
• Political Reform in China: An Interview with Professor Zhan Jing Our Time
• An Overview of the Trade and Foreign Direct Investment between China, Hong Kong and ASEAN Hong Kong Economic Journal
• Determinants of Central-Provincial Fiscal Transfer: Equity, Bargaining or Efficiency? SSRN Electronic Journal
• Fiscal Transfer and Local Public Expenditure in China: A Case Study of Shanxi Province SSRN Electronic Journal

2010

• Review of China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk Chinese Journal of Communication
• Thirty Years of Reform: What Can We Learn from China? Our Time

2009

• Decentralizing China: Analysis of Central Strategies in China’s Fiscal Reforms Journal Of Contemporary China
• Undermining State Capacity: Vertical and Horizontal Diffusions of Fiscal Power in China Asian Politics & Policy

2004

• China’s Fiscal System in Transition: Editor's Introduction Chinese Law & Government