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Julia Strauss

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Julia Strauss

Visiting Professor

Professor of Chinese Politics, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

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Julia Strauss is professor of Chinese politics in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She received a BA in Chinese Language and European History from Connecticut College (1983) and both an MA and PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley (1984, 1991). She moved to the Department of Political and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1994. She served as Editor of The China Quarterly from 2002-2011 and was promoted to Professor in 2013. She offers courses in Chinese politics and comparative political sociology.

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Strauss’s research interests span both sides of the Taiwan Straits and are focused on state building and institution building, governance, the performative dimensions of politics, the environment, and China’s “going out” policy toward the developing world, particularly with respect to Africa and Latin America.

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Books

  • Strauss, Julia C. (2019) State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Strauss, Julia (1998) Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Strauss, Julia C (2019) 'Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World'. The China Quarterly, (239), pp 804-812.
  • Strauss, Julia (2019) 'Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth'. Twentieth Century China, (44) 2, pp 253-258.
  • Strauss, Julia C. (2013) 'China and Africa Rebooted: Globalization(s), Simplification(s), and Cross-cutting Dynamics in “South–South” Relations'. African Studies Review, (56) 1, pp 155-170.
  • Strauss, Julia C. (2012) 'Framing and Claiming: Contemporary Globalization and “Going Out” in China's Rhetoric towards Latin America'. The China Quarterly, (209), pp 134-156.
  • 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 to The China Quarterly Volume 183'. 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.

Teaching

  • China and the Global South

Semester: Fall 2024 | 11310TSE 601300 | 2 credits 
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Abstract
As China is an increasingly important player in world politics, its profile as a non-traditional donor to other developing countries has risen. Yet there is a great deal of (mis)information and at best only partial understanding of its “rise” for the Global South. This weekly seminar seeks to overcome a range of (mis)perceptions about China and the Global South that are regularly (re)told and (re)presented in the open media and in think tanks outside China. After considering what is and is not different about China’s approaches to development and aid, we disaggregate “China” as comprising a multiplicity of actors who “go out” to the Global South in search of investment, aid, and employment in quite different sectors. Throughout the class we will focus on the ways in which neither China nor countries in the Global South are unified: each is comprised of an ever shifting range of different political, social, and economic actors.