e-mail: liua@polsci.ucsb.edu
personal home page: http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/liua

Fields of Interest: Chinese Politics, Comparative Politics, Pacific Rim Studies

Professor Liu was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1967-69. In 1986, he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Taipei, Taiwan, doing field research on entrepreneurs and politicians in the Republic of China. Currently, his research deals with comparative modernizations in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the Pacific basin area. His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, Asian Survey, Journal of International Affairs, Journalism Quarterly, Political Psychology, and Problems of Post-Communism. He is the author of five books: Communications and National Integration in Communist China; Political Culture and Group Conflict in Communist China; How China is Ruled; Phoenix and the Lame Lion: Modernization in Taiwan and Mainland China, 1950-80; and Mass Politics in the People's Republic.

Courses Taught:

PS 109	Revolution and Mass Movement
PS 136	Government and Politics of China
PS 138	Political and Economic Development in Pacific Rim Countries
PS 285	Seminar in Comparative Asian Political Development
PS 279	Seminar in Social and Cultural Basis of Political Change

Selected Recent Publications:
Mass Politics in the People's Republic: State and Society in Contemporary China (Westview Press, 1996).

"A Convenient Crisis: Looking Behind Beijing's Threats Against Taiwan," Issues & Studies 36 (September/October 2000).

"Provincial Identities and Political Cultures: Modernism, Traditionalism, Parochialism, and Separatism," in Chinese Political Culture, 1989-2000, ed. Shiping Hua (M. E. Sharpe, 2001).