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Professor Ashley EsareyEmail: esareyaw@whitman.edu Education: Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006 |
Courses
Fall 2009:
Contemporary Chinese Politics
Democracy in East Asia
International Politics
Spring 2010:
Japanese Politics
Media and Politics
Chinese Foreign Policy
Select Publications
The Challenge of Truth: Media and Power in Contemporary China (forthcoming)
"Political Discourse in the Chinese Blogosphere: Below the Radar," with Xiao Qiang, Director, China Internet Project, University of California at Berkeley, Asian Survey, Vol. 48, No. 5 (September/October), 2008, pp. 752-772
Read
"Intellectual Pluralism and Dissent in Taiwan and China," with Merle Goldman, Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University in Larry Diamond and Bruce Gilley eds., Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan, Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2008
"Cornering the Market: State Strategies for Controlling China’s Commercial Media," Asian Perspective, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2005, pp. 37-83; also published in Dali L Yang ed., Discontented Miracle: Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Adaptations in China (Singapore: World Scientific, 2007), pp. 1-48
Read
"Speak No Evil: Mass Media Control in Contemporary China," Freedom at Issue: A Special Freedom House Report, February 2006, http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/33.pdf
"Iran: Engage, not Enrage," Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2007
Article Manuscripts
"Technology and Political Resistance in Authoritarian China" (with Xiao Qiang). Submitted to Political Communication
"Who Controls the Message? Media Freedom, Propaganda, and Pluralism in China." Submitted to Political Communication
Working papers
"Dangerous Information: Public Relations and Regime Change in China and Taiwan"
"Holding Together China: Institutional Solutions for a Democratic Future"
"Reconsidering Market-Preserving Federalism in China"
Book reviews
China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy edited by Cheng Li, Perspectives on Politics, vol. 7, issue 2, June 2009
Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China by Anne-Marie Brady, China Journal, issue 61, January 2009
"Response to Daniel Lynch," Taiwan Journal of Democracy, July 2007, Vol. 3, No. 1
"Culture Clash: Rising China vs. Asian Democratization," Book review of Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to "Global Culture" in the Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan by Daniel C. Lynch, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, December 2006, Vol. 2, No. 2
Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China by Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lü, Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2003, Vol. 57, No. 3
Research
My current research pertains to political communication in the People’s Republic of China. I endeavor to answer questions such as: How has information control strengthened the Chinese Communist Party? Do Chinese believe propaganda? If so, under what conditions is it more effective? What is the relationship between freedom of information and democratization? My other research interests are federalism, the crafting of democratic institutions, and US-China relations.
In the Media
"China and the Internet" with Professor Yang Guobin at the National Committee on US-China Relations
MSNBC concerning "Green Dam" Software
Associated Press on the Olympics
Wall Street Journal on Blogging in China
Council on Foreign Relations about Foreign Journalists and Media Freedom
