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(88)"Social Assistance under Capitalist, Authoritarian Rule: Two Management Models in Chinese Municipalities," (Presented at conference on "Authoriatarianism in East Asia: Viet Nam, China, & North Korea," 29-30 June 2010, City University of Hong Kong. ).

(87)"Enticing the Global Gaze, The Contention for Urban Spatial Rights in China," ("Right to the City," prepared for submission to "EPA-A" ).

(86)"The New Urban Underclass and its Consciousness (IS it a Class?)" (To be published in Journal of Contemporary China, Sept. 2012.).

(85)"Welfare, Wealth, and Poverty in Urban China: The Dibao and its Differential Disbursement," (To be published in The China Quarterly, 2012).

(84)"Temporality As Trope In Delineating Inequality: Progress for the Prosperous, Time Warp for the Poor," (to be published in Unequal China: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Inequality, ed. by Yingjie Guo and Wanning Sun, forthcoming).

(83)"Dibaohu in Distress: The Meager Minimum Livelihood Guarantee System in Wuhan," in Beatriz Carillo and Jane Duckett, eds., China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2011), 36-63.

(82)"Social Reforms in the Cities: Modernity, Time Warp and Marketing Among Disparate Urban Social Strata," in Zhiyue Bo and John Wong, eds., China's Reform in Global Perspective (Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2010), 77-114.

(81)"The Urban Dibao: A Minimum Livelihood Guarantee to Guarantee Minimal Commotion," in Fulong Wu and Chris Webster, ed., Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010), 253-77.

(80)"The Phase-out of the Unfit: Keeping the Unworthy Out of Work," in Lisa A. Keister, ed., Research in the Sociology of Work, Volume 19, Work and Organizations in China after Thirty Years of Transition (London: Emerald Press, 2009), 307-36.

(79)"A Question of Confidence: State Legitimacy and the New Urban Poor," in Peter H. Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., Chinese Politics: State, Society, and the Market (Routledge/Curzon, 2010), 243-57.

(78)"The Dibao Recipients: Mollified Anti-Emblem of Urban Modernization," China Perspectives 2008, volume 4, 36-46.

(77)"Xiagang and the Geometry of Urban Political Patronage in China," in Thomas B. Gold, William J. Hurst, Jaeyoun Won, and Li Qiang, eds., Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), 39-60.

(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.