Anita Chan

About Anita Chan

Books

• Anita Chan, China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001, 244 pp. Click here for more information.
• Anita Chan, Benedict T. Kerkvliet and Jonathan Unger (eds), Transforming Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared, Sydney: Allen & Unwin; Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, 240 pp.
• Zhu Xiaoyang and Anita Chan, Xiangzheng yu Anliu (Symbolism and Undercurrents: The 1989 Mass Movement) (Taipei: Daohe Press, 1994), 347 pp.
• Anita Chan, Richard Madsen and Jonathan Unger, Chen Village Under Mao and Deng, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 346 pp. [This is a new edition, updated and substantially expanded, of the Chen Village book]. Chinese-language version, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1997, 345 pp. See more details about this book, including the first 18 pages of Chapter 1.
• Anita Chan, editor, A Brief Analysis of the Cultural Revolution (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1987), 151 pp.
• Anita Chan, Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism in the Red Guard Generation, London: The MacMillan Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985, 254pp.
• Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen and Jonathan Unger (eds), On Socialist Democracy and the Chinese Legal System: The Li Yizhe Debates, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1985, 311 pp.
• Anita Chan, Richard Madsen and Jonathan Unger, Chen Village: The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Mao's China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1984; paperback edition, 1985, 293 pp.; Japanese-language edition (Tokyo: Kobayashi Koji, 1989).

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

[Articles on labour issues are marked with * ]

• * "China's Trade Unions in Corporatist Transition", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008), pp. 69-85.
• * Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Associations in a Bind: The Rise of Political Corporatism in China", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008), pp. 48-68.
• * "Corporate Accountability and the Potential for Workers’ Representation in China", in Kate Macdonald (ed.), Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond: Experiments in ‘Global Justice’, Ashgate, 2008.
• * Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "Blood, Tears, Toys, and NGOs", Yale Global (December 2007), http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=10094.
• * "Organizing Wal-Mart in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back for China's Unions", New Labor Forum, Vol. 16, No. 2 (March 2007), pp. 87-96.
• * Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, “Memories and the Moral Economy of a State-Owned Enterprise", in Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang (eds), Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. 119-40.
• * "Realities and Possibilities for Chinese Trade Unionism", in Craig Phelan (ed.,) The Future of Organised Labour: Global Perspectives. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006, pp. 275-304.
• * Co-author, “Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Know", International Affairs (Chatham House), Vol. 82, No. 5 (September 2006), pp. 977-987.
• * "Organizing Wal-Mart: The Chinese Trade Union at a Crossroads," Japan Focus, September 8, 2006, http://japanfocus.org/products/topdf/2217
• * "Arbeitsbeziehungen in China: zwischen organisiertem und neoliberalem Kapitalismus", Das Argument 268, 48. Jg., 2006, H. 5/6, S. pp. 92-97.
• * "China Says 'No' to Developed Countries' Corporate Social Responsibility," Asian Analysis, http://www.aseanfocus.com/asiananalysis/about.html, February 2005. Also published in International Union Rights, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 18-19.
• * "Recent Trends in Chinese Labour Issues: Signs of Change", China Perspectives, Jan - Feb 2005, No. 57 [PDF]
• * Zhu Xiaoyang and Anita Chan, “Staff and Workers’ Representative Congress: An Institutionalized Channel for Expression of Employees’ Interests?", Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Summer 2005), pp. 6-33.
• * Anita Chan & Wang Hongzen, "The Impact of the State on Workers' Conditions: Comparing Taiwanese Factories in China and Vietnam," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 4(Winter 2004 pp. 629-646).
• * "A New China? Some Hope for Optimism for Chinese Labor", New Labor Forum, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Fall 2004), pp. 16-75.[PDF file (59.7KB)]
• * Peter Alexander and Anita Chan, "Does China Have an Apartheid Pass System?", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4 (July 2004), pp. 609-29.
• * Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "The Internal Politics of an Urban Chinese Work Community: A Case Study of Employee Influence on Decision-Making at a State-Owned Factory", The China Journal, no.52 (July 2004), pp. 1-24. [PDF File (193 KB)]
• * Chen Meei-shia and Anita Chan, "Employee and union inputs into occupational health and safety measure in Chinese factories," Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 58 (2004), pp. 1231-45. [PDF file(164 KB)]
• Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "The China Journal and the Changing State of China Studies", Issues & Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (March 2003), pp. 327-31.
• * Anita Chan and Robert J. S. Ross, "Racing to the Bottom: Industrial Trade Without a Social Clause", Third World Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 6 (2003), pp. 1011-28. [PDF file (217 KB)]
• * "A ‘Race to the Bottom': Globalisation and China's Labour Standards", China Perspectives, Vol. 46 (2003), pp. 41-49. [PDF file]
• * Anita Chan and Zhu Xiaoyang, "Disciplinary Labor Regimes in Chinese Factories", Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2003), pp. 559-84. [PDF file]
• * "Culture of Survival: Lives of Migrant Workers through the Prism of Private Letters", in Perry Link, Richard Madsen and Paul Pickowicz (eds), Popular China, Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, pp. 163-188; also published in Chinese as "Shengcunde wenhua: wailai gongren de shenghuo", Qinghua Shehuixue Pinglun (Tsinghua Sociological Review), January 2003, pp. 115-50. [生存的文化：通过私人信件透视外来工人的生活 (1.15MB)] )
• * Robert J. S. Ross and Anita Chan, "From North-South to South-South: The True face of Global Competition", Foreign Affairs, September/October 2002, pp. 8-13. [PDF file (4.11MB)]
• * "Labor in Waiting: The International Trade Union Movement and China", New Labor Forum, Fall/Winter 2002, pp. 54-59. [PDF file (3MB)]
• Anita Chan and Zhu Xiaoyang, "Symbolism and Undercurrents: The 1989 Mass Movement", Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 2001) and Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2001).
• * "China and the International Labour Movement", China Review (Summer 2001), pp. 9-13.
• * "Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in the State-owned and Joint-venture Enterprises", in Malcolm Warner (ed.), Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy, London: Macmillan, 2000, pp. 34-56.
• * Irene Nørlund and Anita Chan, "På forskellige udviklingsveje. Fagbevægelsen i Kina og Vietnam" (On Different Development Paths: The Trade Union Movement in China and Vietnam), Den Ny Verden (The New World), Special issue on the Trade Unions in the Development Process No 2 (2000), pp. 120-40.
• * "Globalization, China's Free (Read Bonded) Labour Market, and the Chinese Trade Union", in Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 6, Nos. 3 & 4 (Spring/Summer 2000), pp. 260-81; also in Chris Rowley and John Benson (eds), Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region, London: Frank Cass, 2000, pp. 260-81.
• * "Trade Unions, Conditions of Labor, and the State", in Jutta Hebel and Gunter Schucher (eds), Der Chinesische Arbeitsmarkt, Hamburg: Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Asienkunde, 1999, pp. 237-56.
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Inheritors of the Boom: Private Enterprise and the Role of Local Government in a Rural South China Township", The China Journal, Vol. 42 (July 1999), pp. 45-74.
• * Chen Meei-Shia and Anita Chan, “Workers’ Health and Environmental Pollution in China: The Export-led Economy in Command", International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 29, No. 4 (November 1999), pp. 793–811.
• * Robert Lambert and Anita Chan, “Global Dance: Factory Regimes, Asian Labour Standards and Corporate Restructuring", in Jeremy Waddington, ed. Globalisation and Labour Resistance (London: Mansell, 1999), pp. 72–104.
• * "Labor Standards and Human Rights: The Case of Chinese Workers Under Market Socialism", Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 20, No. 4 (1998), pp. 886-904.
• * Anita Chan and Irene Nørlund, "Vietnamese and Chinese Labor Regimes: On the Road to Divergence", The China Journal, Vol. 40 (1998), pp. 173-97; also in Anita Chan, Benedict T. Kerkvliet and Jonathan Unger (eds), Transforming Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared, Sydney: Allen & Unwin; Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, pp. 204-28. [PDF file (138 KB)]
• * "Whither the Chinese Work Unit?: Toward Enterprise ‘Familism' or the Market?", in Elizabeth Perry and Lu Xiaobo (eds), Between State and Society: The Changing Chinese Work-Unit in Historical and Comparative Perspective, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 91-113.
• * "Labor Relations in Foreign-funded Ventures", in Greg O'Leary (ed.), Adjusting to Capitalism: Chinese Workers and their State, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997, pp. 122-49.
• * Anita Chan and Robert A. Senser, "China's Troubled Workers", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 2 (March 1997), pp. 104-17.
• * "Regimented Workers in China's Free Labour Market", China Perspectives, Vol. 9 (January/February, 1997), pp. 12-16; this article also appears in the French-language edition of the same journal, Chinoises Perspectives.
• * "Workers' Rights are Human Rights", China Rights Forum (Summer 1997), pp. 4-7.
• "The Changing Ruling Elite and Political Opposition in China", in Garry Rodan (ed.), Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia, London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 163-87.
• Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "China, Corporatism, and the East Asian Model", The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 33 (January 1995), pp. 29-53; reprinted in Chun Lin (ed.), China: The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government, Vol. III (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 1999). A considerably longer version of this paper appears in Barrett McCormick and Jonathan Unger (eds), China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 95-129. An up-dated version, in Chinese, appears in Zhanlue yu Guanli, No. 44 (January 2001). [PDF file (2.93MB)]
• * "Chinese Enterprise Reforms: Convergence with the Japanese Model?", Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1995), pp. 449-70; also in Barrett McCormick and Jonathan Unger (eds), China After Socialism: in the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, pp. s181-202.
• * "The Cultural Revolution as a Mass Movement", Xianggang Shehui Kexue Xuebao (Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences), No. 6 (Fall 1995), pp. 206–18.
• * "The Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations in China and the Rise of Two New Labour Movements", China Information, Vol. 9, No. 4 (1995), pp. 36-59.
• "Self-limiting Democratization Among the Chinese Elite", Development Bulletin, Vol. 32 (October 1994), pp. 37-40.
• * "Revolution or Corporatism? Workers and Trade Unions in Post-Mao China", Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Vol. 29 (1993), pp. 31-61; also in David Goodman and Beverley Hooper (eds), China's Quiet Revolution: New Interactions Between State and Society Melbourne: Longman Cheshire; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, pp. 162-93; reprinted in Chun Lin (ed.), The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government Series: China, Volume II, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1999.
• "Dispelling Misconceptions About the Red Guard Movement—The Necessity to Re-examine Cultural Revolution Factionalism and Periodization", The Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September 1992), pp. 61-85.
• "Protest in a Hunan County Town: The Profile of a Democracy Movement Activist in China's Backwaters", in Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991, pp. 137-49.
• "The Social Origins and Consequences of the Tiananmen Crisis", in David Goodman & Gerald Segal (eds), China in the Nineties: Crisis Management and Beyond, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 105-30.
• * "Workers Under ‘Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics': Labour Relations in the Special Economic Zones", China Information, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Spring 1991), pp. 75-82.
• * Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "Voices from the Protest Movement in Chongqing, Sichuan: Class Accents and Class Tensions", The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Vol. 24 (July 1990), pp. 259-79; also in Jonathan Unger (ed.), The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991, pp. 106-26.
• "The Challenge to China's Social Fabric", in David Goodman and Gerald Segal (eds), China at Forty: Mid-Life Crisis? Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 66-85. Also in The Pacific Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (March 1989), pp. 121-31.
• "Looking Back on the Chinese Cultural Revolution", Problems of Communism, Vol. 37, No. 2 (March-April 1988), pp. 68-75.
• "Self-deception as a Survival Technique—The Case of Yue Daiyun", The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Vol. 19/20 (January/July 1988), pp. 345-58
• "Images of China's Social Structure: The Changing Perspectives of Canton Students", World Politics, Vol. 34, No. 3 (April 1982), pp. 295-323.
• Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger, "Grey and Black: The Hidden Economy of Rural China", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Fall, 1982), pp. 452-471.[PDF file (2MB)]
• Anita Chan, Stanley Rosen and Jonathan Unger, "Students and Class Warfare: The Social Roots of the Red Guards conflict in Guangzhou (Canton)", The China Quarterly, No. 83 (Autumn 1980), pp. 397-446. [PDF file (5.7MB)]
• "Rural Chinese Women and the Socialist Revolution: An Inquiry into the Economics of Sexism", Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1974), pp. 197-208.

中文文章目录(Articles in Chinese)

• * "Zhongguo laogong wenti: yige xin de pinggu" (Questions facing China's Manual Workers: A New Assessment), in Kuan Hsin-chi and Xiong Jingming (eds), Jinru ershiyi shiji de Zongguo (China’s Entry into the Twenty-first Century) (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008).
• 前进的新一步：外企促使推动的工会选举应包容工会参与 (维泰研讨会，«工人的参与和企业社会责任：未来的道路»，中国深圳大梅沙喜来登酒店 2007年10月15日)
• * "组织沃尔玛：十字路口的中国工会" (Organizing Wal-Mart: The Chinese Trade Union at a Crossroads), Japan Focus, 8 September 2006.
• * "Zhongguo laogong jiufen de xin qushi" (Trends in Chinese Labour Disputes), Zhongguo Yanjiu (China Research), [Nanjing University], No. 4, 2006.
• 中国劳工的全球化及其对国际劳工的影响（《批判与再造》第9期，2004/07)
• 台商、国家机关与全球反血汗工厂运动：中国与越南比较（《香港社会科学学报》第26期，2003年秋冬季)
• * Wang Hongzen and Anita Chan, “Taishang, guojia jiqi yu chuanqiu fanxuehan gongchang yundong: Zhongguo yu Yuenan de bijiao" (Taiwanese-owned Factories, the Anti-sweatshop Movement, and the State: Case Studies from Vietnam and China), Xianggang Shehui Kexue Xuebao (Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences), No. 26 (Autumn/Winter 2003), pp. 103-26.
• * Zhu Xiaoyang and Anita Chan, “Zhili shidai zhigong liyi jizhong biaoda de zhiduhua qudao" (The Institutionalization of Workers’ Articulated Interests), Kaifang shidai (Open Times, Guangzhou), Vol. 2 (2003), pp. 120-32. [职工代表大会：职工利益的制度化表达渠道 (841KB)]
• 职工代表大会：职工利益表达的制度化渠道？（《开放时代》2003年第2期）
• 生存的文化：通过私人信件透视外来工人的生活（《清华社会学评论》 2002卷）
• WTO: 劳工权益保障（中国工运学院劳动关系研究所编，《WTO: 劳工权益保障》，中国工人出版社 2001年）
• 中国，组合主义及东亚模式（《战略与管理》，2001年第1期）
• * "Quanqiuhua, shehui liaokuan he Zhongguo gongren" (Globalization, the Social Clause and Chinese Workers), in Chang Kai and Qiao Jian, eds, WTO: laogong quanyi baozhang (WTO: Protection of Labour Rights and Interests), (Beijing: Chinese Workers Press, 2001), pp. 270-294.
• 对红卫兵运动的歧见：重新检讨文革派性根源和文革分期问题（《当代中国研究中心论文》第4卷第6期，1993年6月）

Edited Translations

• With Zhu Xiaoyang, "Workplace Governance and Worker Participation in China's Transitional Economy", Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, Parts I & II, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Summer 2005), 84 pages, and Vol. 38, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), 96 pages.
• * Luk Tak Chuen and Anita Chan (eds), "The Impact of the WTO on Workers in China" Part I, II and III, The Chinese Economy May/June, Sept/Oct, Nov/Dec (2001), 93 pp, 90 pp and 88 pp.
• * Anita Chan (ed.), "The Conditions of Chinese Workers in East Asia-Funded Enterprises", Chinese Sociology and Anthropology (Summer 1998), 101 pp.
• Anita Chan, Wu Di and Lisa Pola (eds), "Class and Gender: Debates over the Television Soap Opera ‘Aspirations'", Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 27, No.4 (Summer 1995), 93 pp.
• Anita Chan, Zhu Xiaoyang and Josephine Fox (eds), "Encounters with Legalized Illegality: Liu Shanqing, The Democracy Movement, and Prison Reforms", Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 26, No.4 (Summer 1994), 92pp.
• Anita Chan (ed.), A Brief Analysis of the Cultural Revolution, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1987, 151 pp.
• Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger (eds), "The Case of Li I-che", Chinese Law and Government, Vol. 10, No.3 (Fall 1977), 112 pp.