Ben Hillman, Tan Zhao (2026). Bureaucratic Avoidance in China’s Local Governments: The Persistence of Formalism and the Limits of Central Control. China Journal.DOI
Tan Zhao, Zhengyun Zhong (2025). The New Rural Elite Associations in China's Rural Governance. China Journal, Vol. 940, No. 1.DOI
Tan Zhao (2025). First Democracy, Then Centralism: The New Shape of Village Elections Under the One-Shoulder Pole Policy. Journal Of Contemporary China, Vol. 340, No. 153.DOI
Tan Zhao (2023). Professionalizing China's Rural Cadres. China Journal, Vol. 890.DOI
Xiao Ma, Susan H. Whiting, Tonglong Zhang, Tan Zhao (2022). Vote Buying as Rent Seeking: Land Sales in China's Village Elections. Studies In Comparative International Development, Vol. 570, No. 3.DOI
Tan Zhao (2021). Corruption in Rural China: The Surprising Incentives Offered to Village Cadres to Follow State Directives. China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal On Greater China, Vol. 210, No. 40.
Tan Zhao (2018). Vote Buying and Land Takings in China's Village Elections. Journal Of Contemporary China, Vol. 270, No. 110.DOI