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"Social Reforms in the Cities: Modernity, Time Warp and Marketing Among Disparate Urban Social Strata," to be published in "China's Reform in Global Perspective," edited by Zhiyue Bo and John Wong, World Scientific Press (Singapore), 2009.

"The Dibao Recipients: Mollified Anti-Emblem of Urban Modernization," China Perspectives 2008, volume 4.

"Dibaohu in Distress: The Meager Minimum Livelihood Guarantee System in Wuhan,"Revised version of paper prepared for Provincial China Workshop 2008: "Social Problems and the local welfare mix in China: Public policies and private initiatives," Nankai University, Tianjin, 27-31 October 2008.

"A Question of Confidence: State Legitimacy and the New Urban Poor," Prepared for "Chinese Politics: State, Society, and the Market," edited by Peter H. Gries and Stanley Rosen, (Routledge/Curzon, forthcoming, 2010).

"The Phase-out of the Unfit: Keeping the Unworthy Out of Work," Prepared for Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 19, edited by Lisa A. Keister (Emerald iPress, forthcoming).

"The Urban Dibao: A Minimum Livelihood Guarantee to Guarantee Minimal Commotion,"Paper prepared for Workshop on Comparative Urban Marginalization and Poverty, Cardiff, UK, 12-13 June 2008. Forthcoming in volume to be edited by Fulong Wu.

(77)"Xiagang and the Geometry of Urban Political Patronage in China: Celebrated State (once-)Workers and State Chagrin," In “Xiagang Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State,”, edited by Thomas B. Gold and William J. Hurst. (manuscript under review as of 11/07)

(76)"Business Groups: For or Against the Regime?" In Larry Diamond and Bruce Gilley, editors, Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan (Boulder & London: Lynne Riener, 2008), 94-114.

(75)"The Political Implications of China's Future: Complacency, Scorn, and the Forlorn," in Cheng Li, ed., Chinas Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2008), 251-66.

(74)"Labor Discontent in China in Comparative Perspective," Eurasian Geography and Economics 48, 4 (July-August 2007), 177-93.

(73)"Globalization and labour's losses: Insights from the Study of China, France, and Mexico," in Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth, and Marika Vicziani, Globalisation and Labour Mobility in China (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2007).

(72)"The Sad Story of Zheng Erji," in Dorothy J. Solinger, ed., Narratives of the Chinese Economic Reforms (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press,2006), 113-128.

(71)"Interviewing Chinese People: From High-Level Officials to the Unemployed," in Maria Heimer and Stig Thogersen, eds., Doing Fieldwork in China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006), 153-67.

(70)"The Creation of a New Underclass in China and its Implications," Environment & Urbanization, 18, 1 (April 2006), 177-93.

(69) "Path Dependency in the Transition to Unemployment and the Formation of Safety Nets in China," Prepared for Panel on "Communist and Post-Communist Welfare States," 99th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.

(68)"Policy Consistency in the Midst of Crisis: Managing the Furloughed and the Farmers in Three Cities," in Barry Naughton and Dali Yang, eds., Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2004). (Updated and much revised version of #50)

(67)"State and Society in Urban China in the Wake of the Sixteenth Party Congress," The China Quarterly, No. 176 2003, 949-59.

(65)"From Master to Marginal in Post-Socialist China: The Once-Proletariat as New Excluded Entrepreneur," in Hok-bun Ku and Ming-kwan Lee, eds., Social Exclusion and Marginality in Chinese Societies (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Centre for Social Policy Studies, 2003),1-14.

(64)"Chinese Urban Jobs and the WTO" The China Journal, 2003) 61-87.

(63)"The New Crowd of the Dispossessed: The Shift of the Urban Proletariat from Master to Mendicant," in Peter Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., State and Society in 21st Century China: Contention, Change and Legitimation (New York: Routledge, 2004), 50-66

(62)"Globalization and Human Rights for Workers in China: Convergence of Collision?" in Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil A. Englehart, Andrew J. Nathan, and Kavita Philip, eds., Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (Armonk, NY: M.E. 2003), 178-213 (Revised and updated from #54)

(60)"Internal Migrants and the Challenge of the 'Floating Populatiothe PRCn' in the PRC," in Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Woo, eds., East Asian Law: Universal Norms and Local Cultures (New York: Routledge/Curzon,2002), 137-155.

(59)"Labor Market Reform and the Plight of the Laid-Off Proletariat," The ChinaQuarterly, No. 170 (June 2002), 304-326. (Adapted from #59, updated,and revised)

(58)"Economic Informalization by Fiat: China's New Growth Strategy as Solution or Crisis?" in Luigi Tomba,ed., On the Roots of Growth and Crisis: Capitalism, State and Society in East Asia, (Rome: Annali Della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli,Vol. XXXVI, 2002), 373-417.

(57)"Labor in Limbo: Pushed by the Plan Towards the Mirage of the Market," in Francoise Mengin and Jean-Louis Rocca, eds., Politics of China: Moving Frontiers (New York: Palgrave, 2002). (Revised version of #52)

(55)"The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism and Beyond," co-authored with Kam Wing Chan, in John Eade and Chris Mele, eds., Understanding the City, (London: Blackwell, 2002), 174-190

(54)"Why We Cannot Count the `Unemployed'," China Quarterly, No. 167(August 2001), 671-688.

(53) "Globalization and the Paradox of Participation: The China Case," Global Governance,7, 2(2001): 173-96.

(52)"Ending One-Party Dominance: Korea, Taiwan, Mexico,"Journal of Democracy, 12, 1 (2001): 30-42.

(49)"Clashes Between Reform and Opening: Labor Market Reform in Three Cities," in Chien-min Chao and Bruce J. Dickson, eds., Remaking the Chinese State: Structure, Society, and Strategy (London: Routledge,2001), 103-31.

(48)"Demolishing Partitions: Back to Beginnings in the Cities," The China Quarterly, No. 159 (September 1999),629-39.

(43)"Human Rights Issues in China's Internal Migration: Insights from Comparisons with Germany and Japan," in Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell,eds., The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999),285-312.