Bai Gao | Scholars@Duke

Bai Gao
Professor of Sociology

I have two ongoing projects. One is to study how the dollar's key currency status and the U.S. role as the major liquidity supplier in the postwar period have affected U.S. domestic political economy and how such impacts have led to the skyrocketing federal debt, a fiat economy and high unemployment rate. The other is to study how the changing international environments have changed the Chinese perception of geography and pushed it to a new development strategy of Eurasian continental economic integration.

Current Research Interests

how big manufacturing countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Germany respond to the information revolution, especially the rise of the industrial internet of things?

industrial policy in the era of post globalization

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003

Contact Information

341 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
bai.gao@duke.edu (919) 660-5620

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Princeton University 1994
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2003
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994 - 2000
- Lecturer, University, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993
Recognition
In the News
- MAR 15, 2021
  
  January Book: Bai Gao, "High-Speed Rail: An Analysis of the Chinese Innovation System
Expertise
Subject Headings
- Economic Sociology
- International Political Economy
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
- Research
- Teaching
Research
Selected Grants
- FDI and the Chinese Model of Economic Development in Comparative Perspectives awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2005 - 2007
- Institutional Analysis of Global Production Networks: Market Competition and Industrial Upgrading in the Chinese Automobile Industry awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2003 - 2004
- Facism Versus Liberalism: The Transformation of Economic Governance in Germany, Japan, and the United States in 1930-1945 awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1998 - 1999
- Conspicuous Consumption in Contemporary China awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1994 - 1995
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - al, Bai Gao et. High-Speed Rail and China’s Grand Strategy in the 21 Century (in Chinese). Social Science Literature Press, 2012.
  - Gao, B. Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965 (Chinese edition). Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2008.
  - Gao, B. Japan’s Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation (Chinese Edition). Shangwu Publishing House, Beijing China, 2004.
  - Gao, B. Japan’s Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation (both hardcover and paperback). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  - Gao, B. Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Academic Articles
  - Gao, Bai. “The Renaissance of Industrial Policy: Developmentalism in the Era of Post Globalization.” İStanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi 40, no. 2 (December 31, 2020). https://doi.org/10.26650/sj.2020.40.2.0058.
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  - Gao, B. “The social construction of competitive advantage.” China: An International Journal 14, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 3–18.
  - Gao, Bai. “INTRODUCTION The Social Construction of Competitive Advantage.” China an International Journal 14, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 3–18.
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  - Gao, B. ““The Informal Economy in the Era of Information Revolution and Globalization: The Shanzhai Cell Phone Industry in China.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 31 (March 2011).
  - Gao, B. “"The Rubik’s Cube State: A Reconceptualization of Political Change in Contemporary China" (a Chinese translation).” Social Sciences in China (Internal Version) 24 (December 2010): 100–119.
  - Gao, B. ““The Obama Administration and the Coming of the Post-Globalization Era.” (in Chinese).” Observation and Exchange, 2010, 1–32.
  - Gao, B. ““Globalization and the Origins of Japanese Developmentalism".” Comparativ – Zeitschrift Für Globalgeschichte Und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. 19 (2010): 10–24.
  - Gao, B. “The Rubik's Cube state: A reconceptualization of political change in contemporary China.” Research in the Sociology of Work 19 (December 1, 2009): 409–38. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-2833(2009)0000019017.
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  - Gao, B. ““The International Monetary Order and Domestic Political Economy.” (in Chinese).” Sociological Studies, 2009, 1–15.
  - Gao, B. “"Institutionalism in Economic Sociology and Several Theoretical Issues Related to China’s Response to the Challenge of Globalization" (in Chinese).” Sociological Studies, 2008.
  - Gao, B. “The Dollar Standard and the Monetary Risks: The Chinese Situation Seen from the Japanese Experience.” The 21st Century Economic Report, February 2006.
  - Gao, B. “"Neo-developmentalism Versus Classical Developmentalism: The Chinese Model and the Japanese Model in Comparison" (in Chinese).” Sociological Studies, 2006.
  - Gao, B. “"Globalization and the Structural Risks in the Chinese Model of Economic Development" (in Chinese).” Sociological Studies, 2005.
  - Gao, B. “Globalization, State Building, and China’s Liberalization of FDI (book manuscript),” 2005.
  - Gao, B. “The Social Construction of Comparative Advantage: China’s Efforts in Industrial Upgrading (book manuscript),” 2005.
  - Gao, B. “State Building and Market Building: The Rise of Industrial Clusters in China (book manuscript),” 2005.
  - Gao, B. “The origins of nonliberal capitalism: Germany and Japan in comparison.” Journal of Economic Literature 42, no. 3 (September 1, 2004): 885–86.
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  - Gao, B. “"The Exchange Rate of Renminbi and the International Political Economy" (in Chinese).” Strategy and Management, January 2004.
  - Gao, B. “The State and Economic Governance: the Rise of the Associational Order of the Economy in the United States, Germany, and Japan in 1930-1945 (book manuscript),” 2003.
  - Tetsuji, Okazaki, Okuno-Fujiwara Masahiro, Ueda Kazuo, Ishii Susumu, and Hori Nobuaki. “The Capital Distribution in Post Japan: Industrial Policy and Private Banks.” Social Science Journal of Japan, 2003.
  - Gao, Bai, Tetsuji Okazaki, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara. “The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins.” Journal of Japanese Studies 28, no. 1 (2002): 206–206. https://doi.org/10.2307/4126792.
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  - Gao, B. “The state and the associational order of the economy: The institutionalization of cartels and trade associations in 1931-45 Japan.” Sociological Forum 16, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 409–43. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011948330201.
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  - Gao, B. “Globalization and ideology: The competing images of the contemporary Japanese economic system in the 1990s.” International Sociology 15, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 435–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/026858000015003001.
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  - Gao, B. “"The Search for National Identity in Japanese Economic Policy in 1950-1969.".” Nations and Nationalism 4 (1998): 227–45.
  - Gao, B. “"Efficiency, Culture or Politics: the Institutionalization of Japanese Management.".” A Special Issue of the Sociological Review, Titled the Laws of the Market, 1998, 88–115.
  - Gao, B. “The search for national identity and Japanese industrial policy, 1950-1969.” Nations and Nationalism 4, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 227–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1354-5078.1998.00227.x.
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  - Gao, B. “"Three Paradigms in Modern Japanese Industrial Policy" (in Chinese).” The Chinese Social Science Quarterly, 1995, 102–11.
  - Gao, B. “After ’the Loss of Irrelevance’: Two Ways of Exploring Social Science Theory in Japanese Studies.” The Journal of Asia Studies, May 1994, 570–72.
  - Gao, Bai. “Japan's Political Marketplace By J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. viii, 262 pp. $39.95. - The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms. Edited by Juro Teranishi and Yutaka Kosai. New York: Martin's Press, 1993. viii, 398 pp. $69.95.” The Journal of Asian Studies 53, no. 2 (May 1994): 570–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/2059889.
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  - Gao, Bai. “Arisawa Hiromi and His Theory for a Managed Economy.” Journal of Japanese Studies 20, no. 1 (1994): 115–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/132786.
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  - Gao, B. “"Japanese University Presidents View Higher Education Reform—on Sino-Japanese University Presidents Conference" (in Chinese).” Trend of Foreign Education 1 (1986).
- Book Sections
  - Gao, Bai. “China's Belt & Road Initiative: a counterforce to globalization reversal.” In HANDBOOK ON CHINA AND GLOBALIZATION, 156–74, 2019.
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  - Gao, Bai. “Neoliberal and Classical Developmentalism: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and Japanese Models of Economic Development.” In MODERN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN JAPAN AND CHINA: DEVELOPMENTALISM, CAPITALISM, AND THE WORLD ECONOMIC SYSTEM, 68–97, 2013.
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  - Gao, Bai. ““International Monetary Regimes and Domestic Political Economies: The Origins of the Global Glut of Liquidity.”.” In The Handbook of the Sociology of Finance., edited by Karin Knorr Cetina and Alex Preda. Oxford University Press, 2012.
  - Gao, B. “The Rubik’s Cube State: A Reconceptualization of Political Change in Contemporary China (a Chinese translation).” In Overseas Studies on Contemporary China, edited by Hong Cheng and Ma Xiaohe, 1:3–28. Shanghai Social Science Academy Press, 2010.
  - Gao, B. “The Postwar Japanese Economy.” In A Companion to Japanese History, 299–314, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470751398.ch18.
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  - Gao, B. “The Japanese Economy in the Postwar Period.” In The Encyclopedia of Japan, edited by William Tsutsui. Black Well, 2006.
  - Gao, B. “"The State and the Associational Order of the Japanese Economy: The Institutionalization of Cartels and Trade Associations in Japan (1931-1945)".” In The Sociology of the Economy, edited by Frank Dobbin. Russel Sage Foundation, 2004.
- Other Articles
  - Gao, Bai. ““The United States is Leading the Third Industrial Revolution” (in Chinese).” The Phoenix Weekly, June 2012.
  - Gao, B. ““The benefits of Non-separation of State-Corporate Governance.”.” The Phoenix Weekly, March 2012.
  - Gao, B. ““The Dollar Standard and the Global Production System: The Institutional Origins of the Global Financial Crisis.”.” Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology. ASA Economic Sociology Section, 2010.
  - Gao, B. ““The Possibility for A Major Change in International Economic Order.” China Reform, April 2005.
  - Gao, B. ““Why is the Japanese Economy in Trouble.”.” Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2002.
  - Gao, B. “The Impact of the New Guideline of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty on the China-Taiwan Relations.” The World Journal, October 1997.
  - Gao, B. “The Impact of Hong Kong’s Return to China on Sino-Japanese Relations.” Edited by Guoguang Wu Hong Kong The Pacific Century Institute in Chinese. The 1997 Effect:Hong Kong, China and the Pacific Region, 1997.
  - Gao, B. “The Territory Dispute: China, Taiwan and Japan.” The World Journal, October 1996.
  - Gao, B. “The Impact of Japan’s Return to Asia on the China-Taiwan Relations.” Edited by by the Chinese Association of Political Science and International Studies Hong Kong Sanlian Publisher in Chinese. Politics, Economy, Society and Cross Strait Relations, 1996.
  - “Jissen-ha Economics and Japanese Industrial Policy.” Kyoto Conference on Japanese Studies, 1994.
  - Gao, B. “Japanese Economy Seen by Foreign Specialists of Japanese Studies.” Economic Policy Studies, March 1991.
  - Gao, B. “The Sectionalism and Integration of the Japanese State During the 1930s.” Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, 1991.
  - Gao, B. “Japanese Higher Education Structure.” Edited by Hao Keming and Wang Yongquan Beijing People S Education Press. Studies on the Reform of Chinese Higher Education, 1988.
  - Gao, B. “The Tendency of Chinese Education Reform.” The News of Science and Technology, 1985.
  - Gao, B. “Diversity and Higher Education Reform.” Encyclopedic Knowledge, 1985.
  - Gao, B. “The Background of the Reform of Chinese Higher Education.” Beijing University, 1985.
  - Youth, Forum of. “Challenge to our Study.,” 1985.
  - Gao, B. “A New Way of Continuing Education.” People’S Daily, December 1984.
  - Gao, B. “The Way of Learning by Topic.” Beijing University, October 1984.
  - Gao, B. “’Human Relation’ in the Japanese Management System.” Exploration of Labor Issues, 1982.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- member. editorial board for American Sociological Review. January 2011 - December 2014 2011 - 2014
Service to the Profession
- member of the editorial board : American Sociological Review. January 2011 - December 2014 2011 - 2014
- paper reviewer : American Sociological Review. March 2010 2010

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

In the News

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Research

Teaching

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Service to the Profession