Barry J. Naughton
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Washington (BA), Yale University (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)Economist, professor
EmployerUCSD
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Barry J. Naughton is the So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the modern Chinese economy and is a recognized expert in the field. His 1995 book "Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993" won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He stated that the Chinese economic reform was accomplished without a grand vision. Rather, it was the result of a mix between laissez-faire and experimentation with business incentives by the government.

Education

He received his Ph.D. in Economics and M.A. in International Relations from Yale University in 1986 and 1979 respectively, and a B.A., Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Washington in 1975.[1]

Academic career

In 1988 and 1991, Naughton published the first articles of Western scholarship addressing China's Third Front campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in the Country's interior.[2]: 17  Relatively few other Western historians have addressed the Third Front in detail and those that do generally cite Naughton extensively.[2]: 17 

In Naughton's view, China's use of the nomenklatura system of personnel management for Communist Party cadre is a core institution reinforcing national unity.[3]: 23 

Naughton concludes that China's process of rural collectivization proceeded smoothly in part because, unlike the Soviet experience, a network of state institutions already existed in the countryside.[4]

Naughton is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.[5]

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Barry Naughton". gps.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  2. ^ a b Meyskens, Covell F. (2020). Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108784788. ISBN 978-1-108-78478-8. OCLC 1145096137. S2CID 218936313.
  3. ^ Heilmann, Sebastian (2018). Red Swan: How Unorthodox Policy-Making Facilitated China's Rise. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. ISBN 978-962-996-827-4.
  4. ^ Lin, Chun (2006). The transformation of Chinese socialism. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-8223-3785-0. OCLC 63178961.
  5. ^ "The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy". Asia Society. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-29.

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