Faculty Profiles - TSAI Kellee Sing | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2022 4

China’s Party-State Capitalism and International Backlash From Interdependence to Insecurity

International Security, v. 47, (2), 1 October 2022, p. 135-176
Pearson, Margaret M.; Rithmire, Meg; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Securing Authoritarian Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Political Economy of Surveillance in China

China Journal, v. 88, (1), July 2022, p. 2-28
Huang, Jingyang; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Interactions under Authoritarianism

Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarianism / edited by Szu-chien Hsu, Kellee S. Tsai, Chun-chih Chang. Cambridge, USA : Harvard University Press, 2021, p. 3-37, Ch. 5. Book series: Harvard Contemporary China Series: 20
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement [Book review]

Foreign Affairs, v. 101, January/February 2022, article number 1
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

2021 6

Party-State Capitalism in China

Current History, v. 120, (827), September 2021, p. 207-213
Pearson, Margaret; Rithmire, Meg; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Picking Places and People: Centralizing Provincial Governance in China

China Quarterly, v. 248, (1), December 2021, p. 957-986
Lu, Wenzhi; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Reverse Entrepreneurial Migration in China and India: The Role of the State

World Development, v. 138, February 2021, article number 105192
Zweig, David Stephen; Tsai, Kellee Sing; Singh, Alwayn Didar
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Structural Power, Hegemony, and State Capitalism: Limits to China’s Global Economic Power

Politics & Society, v. 49, (2), June 2021, p. 235-267
Liu, Mingtang; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Upgrading Big Brother: Local Strategic Adaptation In China’s Security Industry

Studies in Comparative International Development, 6 October 2021
Huang, Jingyang; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Evolutionary Governance in China: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarianism

Hsu, Szu-chien; Tsai, Kellee Sing; Chang, Chun-chih
Book

2020 2

Social Remittances of Keralans in Neoliberal Circulation

Indian Migration Report 2020 / S. Irudaya Rajan, editor. London : Routledge India, 2020, p. 228-252, Ch. 12
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Securing Authoritarian Capitalism: The Political Economy of Digital Surveillance in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing; Huang, Jingyang
Conference paper

2019 2

Charitable Crowdfunding in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas?

The China Quarterly, v. 240, December 2019, p. 936-966
Tsai, Kellee Sing; Wang, Qingyan
Article

Inter-Governmental Vertical Competition in China's Urbanization Process

Journal of Contemporary China, v. 28, (115), January 2019, p. 99-117
Lu, Wenzhi; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

2018 1

Rescaling State-Society Relations in China and India

Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared / Prasenjit Duara, Elizabeth J. Perry, editors. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2018, p. 257-293, Book series: Harvard Contemporary China Series, v. 19
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

2017 3

When Shadow Banking Can Be Productive: Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in China

Journal of Development Studies, v. 53, (12), December 2017, p. 2005-2028
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Co-Ethnic Capital in Coastal China and India: The Developmental Diasporas of Guangdong and Kerala

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Elite Returnees in Beijing and Bangalore: Information Technology and Beyond

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2016 5

Cosmopolitan Capitalism: Local State-Society Relations in China and India

Journal of Asian Studies, v. 75, (2), May 2016, p. 335-361
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Institutional Adaptability in China: Local Developmental Models Under Changing Economic Conditions

World Development, v. 87, November 2016, p. 107-127
Shen, Xiaoxiao; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Adaptive Informal Institutions

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism / Edited by Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia G. Falleti, Adam Sheingate. New York : Oxford University Press, 2016, p. 270-288, Ch. 16
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

The External Is Incidental: Asia’s SWFs and the Shaping of the Santiago Principles

Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order / Edited by Saadia M. Pekkanen. USA : Cornell University Press, 2016, p. 75-91, Ch. 4, Book series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Pekkanen, Saadia M.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Moving Merchants and Money: The Impact of Zhejiang and Gujarat’s Transnational Traders on Local Development

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2015 6

The Political Economy of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China

Issues and Studies, v. 51, (1), March 2015, p. 55-97
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation and the Chinese Miracle

Naughton, Barry; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book

China: Economic Liberalization, Adaptive Informal Institutions, and Party-State Resilience

The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State /Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, John D. Stephens. New York : Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 654-671
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

The China Dream: Tigers, Flies, and Other Challenges to Economic Reform

China Dreams: China’s New Leadership and Future Impacts /Edited by Chih-Shian Liou, Arthur S Ding. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing, 2015, p. 171-196, Ch. 7
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

The State of China's Economic Miracle [Book Review]

Asia Policy, (20), July 2015, p. 144-148
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

Political Economy of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2014 6

中国的政治经济学与政治学

国外理论动态, (4), 2014, p. 90-102
蔡欣怡; 张春满
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The Evolution of Foreign Direct Investment in Asia

The Oxford Handbook of the International Relations of Asia / Edited by Saadia M. Pekkanen, John Ravenhill, and Rosemary Foot. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 327-347, Ch. 17.
Pekkanen, Saadia M.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

China’s Political Economy in the Study of Comparative Politics

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Informal Institutions and Historical Institutionalism

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

The Local State and Capital in China and India

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

The Politics of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2013 5

China’s Political Economy and Political Science

Perspectives on Politics, v. 11, (3), September 2013, p. 860-871
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

后街金融:中国的私营企业主

蔡欣怡
Book

绕过民主:当代中国私营企业主的身份与策略

蔡欣怡
Book

Cause or Consequence? Private Sector Development and Communist Resilience in China

Why Communism Didn’t Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe / Martin K. Dimitrov, editor. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 205-234
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

China Dreams and Economic Reform Challenges

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2011 4

The Politics of Ambiguity in Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds

Business and Politics, v. 13, (2), August 2011, p. 1-44
Pekkanen, Saadia M.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
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Comparing China’s Capitalists: Neither Democratic Nor Exceptional

Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation / Scott Kennedy, editor. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2011, p. 136-158, Book series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

The Local Politics of Restructuring State-Owned Enterprises in China

Going Private in China: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform / Jean C. Oi, editor. Stanford : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2011, p. 39-70
Zeng, Jin; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Comparing China’s Capitalists: Neither Democratic Nor Exceptional

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2010 3

Friends, Family or Foreigners? The Political Economy of Diasporic FDI and Remittances in China and India

China Report, v. 46, (4), November 2010, p. 387-429
Tsai, Kellee Sing
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The Formal Origins and Consequences of Adaptive Informal Institutions: Insights from Private Sector Development in China

Explaining Institutional Innovation: Case Studies from Latin America and East Asia / Richard F. Doner, editor. New York : Social Science Research Council, 2010, p. 83-105
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Institutional Ambiguity in Asia’s Sovereign Wealth Funds

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2009 4

Beyond Banks: The Local Logic of Informal Finance and Private Sector Development in China

Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives / Jianjun Li, Sara Hsu, editors. New York; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 80-103
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Diasporic Networks and Development in China and India

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Friends, Family, or Foreigners? The Political Economy of FDI and Remittances in China and India

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

The Great Socialist Transformation: Capitalism Without Democracy in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2008 4

Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation [Book Review]

Perspectives on Politics, v. 6, (4), December 2008, p. 851-852
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality [Book Review]

The Journal of Asian Studies, v. 67, (2), May 2008, p. 696-697
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

Dependent Development or Disguised Domestic Diasporas? The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Finance: The Chinese Context, 1978-2008

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2007 6

Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book

後街金融：中國的私營企業主

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book

Debating Decentralized Development: A Reconsideration of the Wenzhou and Kerala Models

Economic Development in India and China: New Perspectives on Progress and Change / Penelope B. Prime, Kishore G. Kulkarni, editors. New Delhi : Serials Publications, 2007, p. 293-319
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Los orígenes formales y las consecuencias de las instituciones informales adaptativas: Visión sobre el desarrollo del sector privado en China

Innovación y construcción institucional: Latinoamérica y el Este de Asia / Richard F. Donor, editor. Barcelona : Icaria Editorial, 2007, p. 91-116
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Cause or Consequence? Private Sector Development and Communist Resiliance in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

How Foreign is FDI in China?

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2006 5

Adaptive Informal Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change in China

World Politics, v. 59, (1), October 2006, p. 116-141
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Debating Decentralized Development: A Reconsideration of the Wenzhou and Kerala Models

Indian Journal of Economics & Business, Special Issue China & India (2006), 2006, p. 47-67
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Adaptive Informal Institutions and Private Sector Development in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Private Sector Development and Privatization in China

Zeng, Jin; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

The Formal Origins of Informal Institutions: Insights from Private Sector Development in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2005 8

Capitalists without a Class: Political Diversity Among Private Entrepreneurs in China

Comparative Political Studies, v. 38, (9), November 2005, p. 1130-1158
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Japan and China in the World Political Economy

Pekkanen, Saadia M.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book

Developmental Dilemmas in China: Socialist Transition and Late Liberalization

Japan and China in the World Political Economy / Saadia M. Pekkhanen, Kellee S. Tsai, editors. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005, p. 45-66, Book series: Politics in Asia series
Tsai, Kellee Sing; Cook, Sarah
Book chapter

Late Liberalizers: Comparative Perspectives on Japan and China

Japan and China in the World Political Economy / Saadia M. Pekkhanen, Kellee S. Tsai, editors. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005, p. 11-28, Book series: Politics in Asia series
Pekkanen, Saadia M.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

The Persistence of Informal Finance

Asia's Giants: Comparing China and India / Edward Friedman, Bruce Gilley, editors. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 123-140
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Rural Financial Markets in China [Book Review]

Journal of Asian Business, v. 20, (2), 2005
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

Changing China: Private Entrepreneurs and Adaptive Informal Institutions

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Converting Communism: Political Implications of Private Sector Development in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2004 5

Imperfect Substitutes: The Local Political Economy of Informal Finance and Microfinance in Rural China and India

World Development, v. 32, (9), September 2004, p. 1487-1507
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Off Balance: The Unintended Consequences of Fiscal Federalism in China

Journal of Chinese Political Science, v. 9, (2), September 2004, p. 1-26
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Nongyehua yu minjian jinrong: Wenzhou de jingyan [Rural Industrialization and Informal Finance: Wenzhou’s Experience]

Tsai, Kellee Sing; Wang, Xiaoyi; Li, Renqing
Book

Debating Local Development: A Reconsideration of the Wenzhou and Kerala Models

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Regime Durability and Endogenous Institutional Change: Private Sector Development in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2003 4

Locating the Local State in China (Before it Turns into Another Cause in Search of its Effect)

Politologiske Studier, v. 6, (2), September 2003, p. 71-82
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Segmented Markets: Grassroots Finance in Rural China and India

China Report, v. 39, (4), November 2003, p. 511-535
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Coping by Innovating: The Formal Origins and Consequences of Informal Institutions

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Imperfect Substitutes: The Local Political Economy of Informal Finance and Microfinance in China and India

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2002 5

Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book

Factionalism in China from a New Institutionalist Perspective

The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang / Jonathan Unger, editor. Armonk : M.E. Sharpe, 2002, p. 161-175, Book series: Contemporary China Books
Nathan, Andrew J.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

State Ideology and Women in Rural China

Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment / Rekha Datta and Judith Kornberg, editors. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002, p. 47-74
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book chapter

Developmental Dilemmas in China

Cook, Sarah; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Local Logics: Informal Finance and Private Sector Development in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2001 2

Beyond Banks: The Local Logic of Informal Finance and Private Sector Development in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Locating the Local State in Reform-Era China (Before it Becomes Another Cause in Search of its Effect)

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

2000 4

Banquet Banking: Gender and Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in South China

The China Quarterly, v. 161, March 2000, p. 142-170
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

A Divided Class: The Politics of Private Enterprise and Self-Employment in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Off Balance: Fiscal Federalism and the Rise of Extra-Budgetary and Informal Finance in China

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

Surveying Microentrepreneurs in China: Practical and Methodological Challenges

Tsai, Kellee Sing
Conference paper

1998 1

Curbed Markets? Financial Innovation and Policy Involution in China’s Coastal South

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper Series, (98-6), May 1998
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

1996 2

Women and the State in Post-1949 Rural China

Journal of International Affairs, v. 49, (2), 1996, p. 493-524
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 [Book Review]

Journal of International Affairs, v. 49, (2), Winter 1996, p. 606-612
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

1995 2

Factionalism - A New Institutionalist Restatement

The China Journal, v. 34, July 1995, p. 157-192
Nathan, Andrew J.; Tsai, Kellee Sing
Article

Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco [Book Review]

China Information, v. 10, (3-4), December 1995, p. 215-217
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

1994 1

Competing Security Agendas in Post-Cold War Europe [Book Review]

Journal of International Affair, v. 47, (2), Winter 1994, p. 612-616
Tsai, Kellee Sing
Book review

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