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Bai Gao

Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
341 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative

Chapter · January 1, 2023 The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the pilot project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It is China’s first government-to-government project with an aim to comprehensively promote the economic development of another country along the Si ... Full text Cite

The Political Economy of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

Book · January 1, 2023 This book explores the political economy of China-Pakistan economic corridor, a major pilot project for China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiatives. Pakistan will provide China with not only a pathway access to the Indian Ocean, Middle East and Africa, but al ... Full text Cite

The Renaissance of Industrial Policy: Developmentalism in the Era of Post Globalization

Journal Article İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi · December 31, 2020 Full text Cite

Why Does Globalization Reverse? The Crisis of the Neoliberal Policy Paradigm

Chapter · January 1, 2018 History suddenly shifted its gear in the past two years and has come to a stage where many events, some of them previously unthinkable, took place one after another. The rise of ISIS, the repeated terrorist attacks in Europe, the challenge of the refugee c ... Full text Cite

The social construction of competitive advantage

Journal Article China: An International Journal · February 1, 2016 Cite

INTRODUCTION The Social Construction of Competitive Advantage

Journal Article CHINA-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL · February 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

“Globalization and the Origins of Japanese Developmentalism"

Journal Article Comparativ – Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. · 2010 Cite

The Rubik's Cube state: A reconceptualization of political change in contemporary China

Journal Article Research in the Sociology of Work · December 1, 2009 Full text Cite

The Postwar Japanese Economy

Chapter · December 13, 2007 Full text Cite

The origins of nonliberal capitalism: Germany and Japan in comparison.

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · September 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

The Capital Distribution in Post Japan: Industrial Policy and Private Banks

Journal Article Social Science Journal of Japan · 2003 Cite

“Why is the Japanese Economy in Trouble.”

Other Accounts: A Newsletter of Economic Sociology Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association · 2002 Cite

The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins

Journal Article Journal of Japanese Studies · 2002 Full text Cite

The state and the associational order of the economy: The institutionalization of cartels and trade associations in 1931-45 Japan

Journal Article Sociological Forum · September 1, 2001 The existing literature on the impact of the state on the associational order has emphasized the state's concern on the implications of the associational order to the public goods and the role of the associational order as a policy tool of the state. Howev ... Full text Cite

Globalization and ideology: The competing images of the contemporary Japanese economic system in the 1990s

Journal Article International Sociology · January 1, 2000 The convergence argument in the debate on globalization regards globalization as a structural change. Globalization, however, is as much a structural change as a social construction - an imagined order of the future that involves value judgment and an ideo ... Full text Cite

"Efficiency, Culture or Politics: the Institutionalization of Japanese Management."

Journal Article a special issue of The Sociological Review, titled The Laws of the Market · 1998 Cite

The search for national identity and Japanese industrial policy, 1950-1969

Journal Article Nations and Nationalism · January 1, 1998 Economic nationalism reflected in Japanese industrial policy experienced two distinctive stages during 1950-69. It was fragmented in the 1950s as political actors held competing perceptions of national interest and consequently asserted contesting strategi ... Full text Cite

The Impact of Hong Kong’s Return to China on Sino-Japanese Relations.

Other The 1997 Effect:Hong Kong, China and the Pacific Region · 1997 Cite

The Territory Dispute: China, Taiwan and Japan.

Other The World Journal · October 1996 Cite

The Impact of Japan’s Return to Asia on the China-Taiwan Relations.

Other Politics, Economy, Society and Cross-Strait Relations · 1996 Cite

"Three Paradigms in Modern Japanese Industrial Policy" (in Chinese).

Journal Article The Chinese Social Science Quarterly · 1995 Cite

Jissen-ha Economics and Japanese Industrial Policy.

Other Kyoto Conference on Japanese Studies · 1994 Cite

Arisawa Hiromi and His Theory for a Managed Economy

Journal Article Journal of Japanese Studies · 1994 Full text Cite

The Sectionalism and Integration of the Japanese State During the 1930s.

Other Transactions of the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan · 1991 Cite

Japanese Higher Education Structure.

Other Studies on the Reform of Chinese Higher Education · 1988 Cite

The Tendency of Chinese Education Reform.

Other The News of Science and Technology · 1985 Cite

Diversity and Higher Education Reform.

Other Encyclopedic Knowledge · 1985 Cite

A New Way of Continuing Education.

Other People’s Daily · December 1984 Cite

The Way of Learning by Topic.

Other Beijing University · October 1984 Cite

’Human Relation’ in the Japanese Management System.

Other Exploration of Labor Issues · 1982 Cite