Lianjiang Li obtained a BA in philosophy from Nankai University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University in 1996. His research interests include Chinese politics, contentious politics, political trust, regime support, and research methods. He is the author of Political Trust in China (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and Rightful Resistance in Rural China (with Kevin O’Brien) (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His research articles appear in Asian Survey, China Information, China: An International Journal, China Journal, China Quarterly, China Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Modern China, Political Behavior, Political Science, and Political Studies.
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Books in English
Political Trust in China (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, in press)
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Books in Chinese
《学者的术与道》(上海:上海交通大学出版社,2022;增补本,2024)
《戏说统计续编:文科生的量化操作指南》(北京:当代世界出版社,2019)
《在學術界謀生存》(香港:中文大學出版社,2018)
《戏说统计:文科生的量化方法》(北京:中国政法大学出版社, 2017)
《不发表就出局》(第一版,北京:中国政法大学出版社, 2016;第二版,上海:上海交通大学出版社,2024)
《新保守主義》(台北:扬智文化事業股份有限公司, 1994)
Journal Articles in English
Yue Guan, Lei Guang, Lianjiang Li, and Yanchuan Liu. “The Rally Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the White Paper Movement in China,” Journal of Contemporary China. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2024.2356863
“Popular Support for the Communist Party of China,” China: An International Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May 2023), pp. 51-71. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/898341
“Dimensionality, Contextuality, and Conceptual Equivalence: The Case of Critical Citizens,” Political Science, Vol. 74, No. 1 (May 2022), pp. 34–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/00323187.2022.2069583
“Decoding Political Trust in China: A Machine Learning Analysis,” China Quarterly, Vol. 249 (March 2022), pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021001077
“Distrust in Government and Preference for Regime Change in China,” Political Studies, Vol. 69, No. 2 (May 2021), pp. 326–343. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719892166
Kevin J. O’Brien, Lianjiang Li, Mingxing Liu, “Bureaucrat-Assisted Contention in China,” Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. SI (October 2020), pp. 661–674.
https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-25-5-661
“The Cadre Resignation Tide in the Wake of the 18th Party Congress,” China:An International Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 (August 2019), pp. 188-199. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/732783/
Shupeng Lyu and Lianjiang Li, “The Dual Effect of Economic Development on Trust in the Central Government: Evidence from Two Waves of a National Survey in China,” China Review, Vol. 18, No. 2(May 2018), pp. 65-85.https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26435648
“Reassessing Trust in the Central Government: Evidence from Five National Surveys.” China Quarterly, Vol. 225 (March 2016), pp. 100-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741015001629
“The Magnitude and Resilience of Trust in the Center: Evidence from Interviews with Petitioners in Beijing and a Local Survey in Rural China,” Modern China, Vol. 39, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 3-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-010-9111-3
Lianjiang Li, Mingxing Liu, and Kevin J. O’Brien, “Petitioning Beijing: The High Tide of 2003-2006,” China Quarterly, Vol. 210 (June 2012), pp. 313-334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741012000227)
“Distrust in Government Leaders, Demand for Leadership Change, and Preference for Popular Elections in Rural China,” Political Behavior, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2011), pp. 291-311. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-010-9111-3#page-1
“Rights Consciousness and Rules Consciousness in Contemporary China,” China Journal, No. 64 (July 2010), pp. 47-68. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/tcj.64.20749246
Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien, “Protest Leadership in Rural China,” China Quarterly, No. 193 (March 2008), pp. 1-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20192161
“Political Trust and Petitioning in the Chinese Countryside,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 40, No. 2 (January 2008), pp. 209-226. https://doi.org/10.2307/20434075
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Popular Contention and its Impact in Rural China,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3 (April 2005), pp. 235-259. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414004272528
“Political Trust in Rural China,” Modern China, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 2004), pp. 228-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700403261824
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Suing the Local State: Administrative Litigation in Rural China,” China Journal, No. 51 (January 2004), pp. 75-96. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182147
“The Empowering Effect of Village Elections in China,” Asian Survey, Vol. 43, No. 4 (July-August 2003), pp. 648-662. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/as.2003.43.4.648
“The Politics of Introducing Direct Township Elections in China,” China Quarterly, Vol. 171 (September 2002), pp. 704-723. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009443902000438
“Elections and Popular Resistance in Rural China,” China Information, Vol. XV, No. 2 (2001), pp. 1-19 (tables missing). China Information, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (2002), pp. 89-107 https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X0101500201
“Support for Anti-Corruption Campaigns in Rural China,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 10, No. 29 (November 2001), pp. 573-586. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670560120075019
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Accommodating ‘Democracy’ in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China,” China Quarterly, Vol. 162 (June 2000), pp. 465-489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000008213
“The Two-Ballot System in Shanxi Province: Subjecting Village Party Secretaries to a Popular Vote,” China Journal, No. 42 (July 1999), pp. 103-118 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2667642
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Campaign Nostalgia in the Chinese Countryside,” Asian Survey, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3 (May/June 1999), pp. 375-393. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3021204
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (January 1999), pp. 167-186. http://www.jstor.org/stable/422143
Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien, “Villagers and Popular Resistance in Contemporary China,” Modern China, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 1996), pp. 28-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/009770049602200102
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “The Politics of Lodging Complaints in Rural China,” China Quarterly, Vol. 143 (September 1995), pp. 756-783. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000015034
Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Chinese Political Reform and the Problem of ‘Deputy Quality’,” China Information, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (Winter 1994), pp. 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X9300800302
Book Chapters in English
“Direct Township Elections,” in Elizabeth Perry and Merle Goldman (eds.), Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 97-116 (text) and pp. 352-59 (notes)
“Direct Election of Township Heads: Perspectives of Chinese Peasants,” in John Wong and Yongnian Zheng (eds.), China’s Post-Jiang Leadership (Singapore and London: Singapore University Press and World Scientific, 2002), pp. 231-260
Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien, “The Struggle over Village Elections,” in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 129-144
Journal Articles in Chinese
李連江,劉明興,“吏紳共謀:中國抗爭政治中一隻看不見的手”,《二十一世紀》,2016年10月號(總第157期),第57-67頁
“差序政府信任”,《二十一世紀》, 2012年6月號(總第131期),第108-114頁。http://dspace.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/handle/2006/393905
“社会科学研究方法的用户视角,”《实证社会科学》, 第1卷(2016年6月),23-32页
“政治学研究中的命名与正名----‘依法抗争’一词的由来,”《中大政治学评论》, 第8辑(2015),1-4页
于建嵘,李连江,“政治发展下一步:县政改革,”《领导者》, 第18期 (10月, 2007),107-17页
李連江,熊景明,“從政府主導的村民政治邁向民主選舉,”《二十一世紀》, 1998年12月號(總第50期),第151-56頁
Book Chapters in Chinese
“當代中國大陸的權利意識與規則意識,”載楊開煌编,《中國改革開放卅十年論文集》(台北:海峽學術出版社, 2009), 277-305頁
“中國農民的國家觀與依法抗爭,”載張茂桂、郑永年編,《兩岸社會運動與民主化》(台北:新自然主義公司, 2003),281-298頁
李連江、欧博文, “村民政治:構想與現實,”載陈明通、郑永年编,《兩岸基層選舉與政治文化變遷》,台湾研究基金會叢書二之三(台北:月旦出版社,1998),325-348頁
李連江、歐博文,“當代中國農民的依法抗爭,”載吳國光編,《九七效應:香港、中國與太平洋》(香港:太平洋世紀研究所,1997),141-170頁
“克里普克的称理论,”载车铭洲主编,《西方现代语言哲学》(成都:四川人民出版社,1989),468-498页
Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit(《人生智慧箴言》)。北京:商务印书馆,2017,239页
Judith Shklar, Montesquieu (《孟德斯鸠》)(北京:中国政法大学出版社,2018)
Cass R. Sunstein, On Rumors (《谣言》)。张楠迪扬译,李连江校(北京:中信出版社,2016)
Melanie F. Manion, “Survey Research in the Study of Contemporary China: Learning from Local Samples” (“当代中国研究中的问卷调查研究:从地方样本中学习”),周凤华译,李连江校。《华中师范大学学报》(人文社会科学版),Vol. 53, No. 5 (October), 117-126页
Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market (《民主與市場》)。張光、馬俊峰 譯,李連江 校 (台北:桂冠圖書有限公司,1999)
Daniel Berman, Words Like Colored Glass: The Role of the Press in Taiwan’s Democratization Process (《筆桿裡面出民主》)(台北:時報出版公司,1995)
John Dunn, Locke(《洛克》)(台北:聯經出版事業有限公司,1990)
车铭洲 编,《西方现代语言哲学》(天津:南开大学出版社,1989)