Writing

Published articles, book chapters, commentaries and book reviews. Most of these are available open access by clicking on the link.

Journal articles

Beyond the Ownership Question: Who Will Till the Land? The New Debate on China's Agricultural Production (2017) Critical Asian Studies 49 (4), pages 523-545

The Rise of China’s New-Type Think Tanks and the Internationalization of the State (2018) in a special issue on think tanks in East Asia, Pacific Affairs 91 (1) 2018, pages 27-47 (Shortlisted for the 2018 Pacific Affairs Holland Prize for most outstanding article)

Building City Walls: Reordering the Population through Beijing's Upside-Down Villages (2022) Modern China 48 (5), pages 1019-1049

Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation (2022) with Dr Malgorzata Jakimów, positions 30 (3), pages 455–477

Book chapters

Primitive Accumulation, in Afterlives of Chinese Communism (2019) edited by Christian Sorace, Nicholas Loubere and Ivan Franceschini, Verso/ANU Press, pages 201-206

1958: Reorganising Chinese Labour: The Establishment of the Household Registration System, in Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (2022) edited by Christian Sorace and Ivan Franceschini, Verso/ANU Press, pages 291-300

Commentaries

Is Hu Angang really an ultra-nationalist? The recent media controversy in political context (2018) in Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights 3 (3), pages 18-21

China’s land reforms and the logic of capital accumulation (2018) in Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights 3 (4), pages 48-51

China’s common prosperity and the search for equality, ISPI Online, January 31 2022

China’s urban question: the other side of the agrarian question (2024) in Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights 9 (2), pages 64-71

Book reviews

Cheng Li, The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China (2017), The China Quarterly no. 235 (2018): 881-882

Brian DeMare, Land Wars: The Story of China’s Agrarian Revolution (2019), The PRC History Review, Vol. 6, no. 2 (March 2021): 3-4

Shaohua Zhan, The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development (2019), The China Quarterly, no. 242 (June 2020): 578-579

Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate (2021), The PRC History Review, no. 38 (April 2022): 1-5

“There isn’t going to be any trouble”, review of two books on China’s post-Mao reforms, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 30 2025.