Dr Julia C Strauss
BA (Connecticut College) MA, PhD (California-Berkeley)
Overview
Department of Politics and International Studies
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics
Centre of Chinese Studies
Member, Centre of Chinese Studies
SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
- Name:
- Dr Julia C Strauss
- Email address:
- js11@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4746
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 207
- On Sabbatical:
- Term 1, 2012-13
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Government and politics of China
- State & society in Asia & Africa
- State and society in the Chinese political process
PhD Students supervised
- Igor Rogelja, Urban Redevelopment and the East Asian Development Model: Urban forms and the politics of space in Taiwan and China
- Konstantinos Tsimonis, Political Representation and Mass Organisations in the People’s Republic of China: Chinese Youth and the Communist Youth League
Research
Institution building and governance in China
Local administration and environmental policy (especially forestry) in China
Domestic politics of China and Taiwan
Editor of The China Quarterly
Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Briefings
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- China
- Taiwan
Languages
- French
- German
Publications
Authored Books
Strauss, Julia (1998) Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940. Oxford University Press.
Edited Books
Strauss, Julia and Saavedra, Martha, eds. (2009) China and Africa: Emerging Patterns of Globalization and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)
Strauss, Julia and O'Brien, Donal B Cruise, eds. (2007) Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: I. B. Tauris. (International library of political studies, v. 18 )
Strauss, Julia, ed. (2007) The History of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)
Hockx, Michel and Strauss , Julia, eds. (2005) Culture in the Contemporary PRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, no. 6)
Book Chapters
Strauss, Julia (2009) 'Traitors, Terror and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits: ‘Revolutionaries’ and “Reactionaries’ from 1949 to 1956.' In: Thiranagama, Sharika and Kelly, Tobias, (eds.), Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State Building. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 89-109.
Strauss, Julia and Saavedra , Martha (2009) 'Introduction: China, Africa and internationalization.' In: Strauss, Julia and Saavedra, Martha, (eds.), China and Africa: Emerging Patterns of Globalization and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)
Strauss, Julia (2008) 'Rethinking Institutional Capacity and Tax Regimes: The Case of the Sino-Foreign Salt Inspectorate in Republican China.' In: Brautigam, Deborah and Fjeldstad, Odd and Moore, Mick, (eds.), Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-234.
Strauss, Julia and O'Brien, Donal B Cruise (2007) 'Introduction.' In: Strauss, Julia and O'Brien, Donal B Cruise, (eds.), Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 1-14. (International library of political studies, v. 18)
Strauss, Julia (2007) 'Introduction: In Search of PRC History.' In: Strauss, Julia, (ed.), The History of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)
Strauss, Julia (2007) 'Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949–1956.' In: Strauss, Julia, (ed.), The History of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)
Strauss, Julia (2002) 'Strategies of Guomindang Institution Building: Rhetoric and Implementation in Wartime Xunlian.' In: Bodenhorn, T., (ed.), Defining Modernity. Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970. The University of Michigan, pp. 195-221.
Articles
Strauss, Julia (2009) 'Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in fin-de-siècle China.' Journal of Asian Studies, 68 (4). pp. 1163-1188.
Strauss, Julia (2009) 'The Past in the Present: Historical and Rhetorical Lineages in China’s Relations with Africa.' The China Quarterly, 199 . pp. 777-795.
Strauss , Julia (2006) 'Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949-1956.' The China Quarterly, 188 (1). pp. 891-912.
Hockx, Michel and Strauss , Julia (2005) 'Introduction.' The China Quarterly, 183 . pp. 523-531.
Strauss , Julia (2003) 'Creating 'Virtuous and Talented' Officials for the Twentieth Century: Discourse and Practice in Xinzheng China.' Modern Asian Studies, 37 (4). pp. 831-850.
Strauss , Julia (2002) 'Paternalist Terror: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and Regime Consolidation in the People's Republic of China, 1950-1953.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44 (1). pp. 80-105.
Strauss, Julia (1997) 'The Evolution of Republican Government.' China Quarterly, 150 . pp. 329-351.
Strauss, Julia (1997) 'Xingzheng Sanlianzhi (The triple linked system) and Xunlian (Training): Modes of Government Administration during the Sino-Japanese War.' Bulletin of the Chinese Society for Military History Studies, 3 . pp. 565-596.
Strauss, Julia (1994) 'Symbol and Reflection of the Reconstituting State: The Examination Yuan in the 1930s.' Modern China, 20 (2). pp. 211-238.
