Dr Chun Lin

Biography

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Dr C Lin received a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in History and Political Science in 1989 having previously worked in China’s major think tanks. Before joining the LSE Department of Government in 1995 she held teaching/research positions at several US universities and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was also a Visiting Professor at NYU in 2008. She is on the Executive Committee of China Quarterly and co-edits Palgrave's book series China in Transformation.

Research Interests

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• Modern Chinese and Asian politics, culture and political economy
• Historical sociology and comparative developments
• Communist and postcommunist studies
• Critical social theory: Marxism, democracy, feminism, basic income and the future of work

Teaching Responsibilities

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• GV245: Democracy and Democratisation
• GV248: Power and Politics in the Modern World
• GV427: Democracy in South and East Asia
• GV432: Government and Politics in China

Featured Books

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China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics (Palgrave, 2013)

 

 

The transformation of Chinese Socialism Duke (University Press, 2006)

 

The British New Left (Edinburgh University Press, 1993)

 

Recent and Selected Publications

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Books

China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History, and Contemporary Politics, Polgrave, 2013

The Transformation of Chinese Socialism, Duke University Press, 2006; 2nd print 2007 (Spanish translation: Spanish translation: La Transformacion del Socialismo Chino, Barcelona: El Viejo Topo, 2008)

The British New Left, Edinburgh University Press, 1993 (Japanese translation: Tokyo: Sairyusha, 1999)

 

Reflections on China’s Reform Trajectory, Beijing: Social Science Academic Publisher, 2008 (in Chinese)

Edited anthologies, Ashgate 2000:

• China I: Modernizing Chinese Polity
• China II: The Transformation of Chinese Socialism
• China III: Defining a Changing China in Global Politics

Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Mao: The Unknown Story (eds. with Gregor Benton), Routledge, 2009

Women: The Longest Revolution (eds. with Li and Tan), Beijing: Sanlian Publishing House, 1997 (in Chinese)

Articles

"The lost international in the transformation of Chinese socialism", forthcoming in Ban Wang, ed. Chinese Visions of World Order, Duke UP, 2016

“The language of class in China”, Socialist Register 2015, London: Merlin 

“Modernity and the violence of global accumulation: the case of ethnic question in China”, in Breno Bringel and Mauricio Domingues, eds. Contestations of Global Modernity, London: Sage, 2015 

“Rethinking land reform: comparative lessons from China and India”, forthcoming in Mahmood Mamdani, ed. Peasants and Pastoralists in the Marketplace: Perspectives from Africa and Asia, 2015

 "An argument for 'participatory socialism'", in Cao and Zhong, eds, Culture and Transformation: Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context, Brill, 2014 

“Marxism and the politics of positioning China in world history”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 13:3, 2012

“Socialist China model or capitalism with Chinese characteristics?”, Hong Kong: Sunny Research Advance, 2011-28, April 2011

“The Chinese revolution and the modern Chinese identity” and “comments on MacFarquhar and Gong”, in Cao, et al. eds. Culture and Social Transformation in Reform Era China, Brill, 2010

“The socialist market economy: step forward or backward for China?” Science & Society, 73:2, April 2009

“Challenging privatization: a conceptual and theoretical argument”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 14:1, 2009

“Against privatization in China: a historical and empirical argument”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, 13:1, 2008