David S G Goodman is Professor of Chinese Politics. He was educated at the University of Manchester (Politics and Modern History) Peking University (Economics) and the London School of Oriental and African Studies (Chinese language and Chinese Politics.)
David Goodman’s research is concerned primarily with social and political change in China, particularly at the provincial and local level. In recent years he has written on the history of the Chinese Communist Party; China’s social history in the Twentieth Century; and local social and political change in China.
David Goodman is currently working on two major research projects. The first is a social history project, looking at German colonial adventurers in China, 1870-1937. The second is concerned with contemporary social and political change - The New Rich and the State in China: The social basis of local power.

Recent publications include China’s Campaign to ‘Open Up the West’: National, provincial and local perspectives (2004); The New Rich in China: Future rulers, present lives (2008); and Twentieth Century Colonialism in China (2010).

Prof Goodman is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia

• Contemporary social and political change in China
• Provincial China
• History of the Chinese Communist Party
• Social history of China 1900-1949
• Regional and local development in China

2009

Chapter

Goodman DS 2009 ‘News from the front’ in Linda Chelan Li (ed) The Chinese State in Transition: Processes and contests in local China Routledge, London, 2009, p.145-156.

2008

Books

Goodman DS 2008 The New Rich in China: Future rulers, present lives Routledge, London, 2008.

Chapter

Goodman DS 2008 ‘Exile as Nationality: The Salar of Northwest China’ in Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack (ed) Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities Rodop, Amsterdam and New York, 2008, p.57-79.

Goodman DS 2008 ‘Why China has no new middle class: cadres, managers and entrepreneurs’ in David S G Goodman (ed) The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives Routledge, London, p.23-37.

Goodman DS 2008 ‘The New Rich in China: the dimensions of social change’ (with Xiaowei Zang) in David S G Goodman (ed) The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives Routledge, London, p.1-20.

2007

Chapter

Goodman DS 2007 ‘Narratives of Change: Culture and Local Economic Development’ in Barbara Krug and Hans Hendrsichke (ed) The Chinese Economy in the 21st Century: Enterprise and Business Behaviour Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007, p.175-201.

2006

Articles

Goodman DS 2006 ‘Mao and The Da Vinci Code: Conspiracy, narrative and history’ in The Pacific Review vol.19 no.3 September 2006, p.359-384.

Chapter

Goodman DS 2006 ‘Shanxi as translocal imaginary: reforming the local’ in Tim Oakes and Louisa Schein (ed) Translocal China Routledge, London, 2006, p.56-73.

Goodman DS 2006 ‘Regional Interactions and Chinese Culture: Openness, Value Change, and Homogenization’ in James Goodman (ed) Regionalization, Marketization and Political Change in the Pacific Rim University of Guadalajara Press, 2006, p.293-323.

2005

Articles

Goodman DS 2005 ‘Exiled by Definition: The Salar and Economic Activism in Northwest China’ in Asian Studies Review December 2005, Vol.29 No.4, p.325-343.

Chapter

Goodman DS 2005 ‘Localism and entrepreneurship: History, identity and solidarity as factors of production’ in Barbara Krug (ed) China’s Rational Entrepreneurs: The development of the new private business sector Routledge, London, 2004, p.139-165.

Goodman DS 2005 ‘China in East Asian and World Culture’ in Barry Buzan and Rosemary Foot (ed) Does China Matter ?: Essays in Memory of Gerald Segal Routledge, London,2004, p.71-86.

Goodman DS 2005 ‘El modelo chino de desarrollo: reforma, no revolucion’ [‘China’s model of development: Reform not revolution’] in Melba E. Falck Reyes and Roberto Hernandez Hernandez (ed) El modelo de desarrollo asiático: Relevancia para Mexico [The Asian Model of Development: Lessons for Mexico] Universidad de Guadalajara Press, 2004, p.111-140.

Other

Goodman DS 2005 ‘Shijie dushi daxue dui guojihua tiaozhan de dushihua huiying’ [‘The world city university as a cosmopolitan response to the challenge of internationalisation’] in Shanghai daxue xuexuebao [Journal of Shanghai University] no.4, 2005, p.5-10.

2004

Books

Goodman DS 2004 China’s Campaign to ‘Open Up the West’: National, provincial and local perspectives Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Articles

Goodman DS 2004 ‘The Campaign to “Open Up the West”: National, provincial-level, and local perspectives’ in The China Quarterly no.178, June 2004, p.317-334.

Goodman DS 2004 ‘Qinghai and the Emergence of the West: Nationalities, communal interaction, and national integration’ in The China Quarterly no.178, June 2004, p.379-399.

2003

Chapter

Goodman DS 2003 ‘New Entrepreneurs in Reform China: Economic Growth and Social Change in Taiyuan, Shanxi’ for Heidi Dahles & Otto van den Muijzenberg (ed) Capital and Knowledge in Asia: Changing power relations Routledge, London, 2003, p.187-197.

2002

Books

Goodman DS 2002 China’s Communist Revolutions: Fifty Years of the People’s Republic of China (with Werner Draguhn) Routledge, London, 2002.

Articles

Goodman DS 2002 ‘Why Women Count: Chinese women and the leadership of reform’ in Asian Studies Review vol.26 no.3, September 2002, p.331-353.

Goodman DS 2002 ‘The Politics of the West: equality, nation-building and colonisation’ in Provincial China Vol.7 no.2, December 2002, p.127-150.

Goodman DS 2002 ‘Structuring local identity: nation, province and county in Shanxi during the 1990s’ in The China Quarterly no.172, December 2002, p.837-862.

Chapter

Goodman DS 2002 ‘Centre and Periphery after Twenty Years of Reform: Redefining the Chinese Polity’ in Werner Draguhn and David S G Goodman (ed) China’s Communist Revolutions: Fifty Years of the People’s Republic of China Routledge, London, 2002, p.250-276.

Goodman DS 2002 ‘Party-Time: The Biography of the Local Business Elite in Shanxi during the 1990s’ in China in seinen biographischen Dimensionen: Gedankschrift für Helmut Martin [China, from the biographical viewpoint] Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2002, p.497-516.

Goodman DS 2002 ‘The Politics of the West: equality, nation-building and colonisation’ in Francois Godement (ed) China and its Western Frontier IFRI, Paris, 2002, p.23-55.

2001

Articles

Goodman DS 2001 ‘Contending the Popular: The Party State and Culture’ in positions: east asia cultures critique vol.9 no.1 Spring 2001, p.245-252.

Chapter

Goodman DS 2001 ‘The interdependence of state and society: the political sociology of local leadership’ in Chien-min Chao and Bruce J Dickson (ed) Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society and Security Routledge, London, 2001, p.132-156.,/p>

2000

Books

Goodman DS 2000 Towards Recovery in Pacific Asia (with Gerald Segal)Routledge, London, 2000.

Goodman DS 2000 North China at War: The social ecology of revolution, 1937-1945 (with Feng Chongyi) Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000.

Goodman DS 2000 Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945 Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000.

Goodman DS 2000 Shanxi in Reform: Everyday Life in a North China Province [Zhongguo Shanxi Fengqing] Dangdai Zhongguo chubanshe, Beijing. 2000. (Bilingual edition.)

Articles

Goodman DS 2000 ‘The Localism of Local Leadership: Cadres in Reform Shanxi’ in Journal of Contemporary China vol.9 (no.24) 2000, p.159-183.

Goodman DS 2000 ‘Centre and Periphery after Twenty Years of Reform: Redefining the Chinese Polity’ in China Perspectives No.31 September-October 2000, p.4-18.

Goodman DS 2000 ‘Revolutionary Women and Women in the Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Women in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945’ in The China Quarterly No.164, December 2000, p.915-942.

Chapter

Goodman DS 2000 ‘Yazhoude huaren shi dui diqu anquande weixian ma ?’ [‘Are Asia’s Chinese a threat to the security of the region ?’] in Mou Weimin (ed) Waiguo xuezhe yanzhongde Zhongguo [China in the Eyes of Foreigners] Beijing, Zhongguo shehui chubanshe, 2000, p.399-402.

Goodman DS 2000 ‘Explaining revolution’ (with Feng Chongyi) in Feng Chongyi and David S G Goodman North China at War: The social ecology of revolution, 1937-1945 Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000, p.1-23.

Goodman DS 2000 ‘Resistance and Revolution, Religion and Rebellion: The Sixth Trigram Movement in Licheng, 1939-1942’ in Feng Chongyi and David S G Goodman North China at War: The social ecology of revolution, 1937-1945 Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000, p.131-154.

1999

Chapter

Goodman DS 1999 ‘The New Middle Class’ in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (ed) The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms Harvard University Press, 1999, p.241-261.

Goodman DS 1999 ‘King Coal and Secretary Hu: Shanxi’s Third Modernisation’ in Hans Hendrischke and Feng Chongyi The Political Economy of China’s Provinces: comparative and competitive advantage Routledge, London, 1999, p.211-244.

Goodman DS 1999 ‘Continental China: the Social and Political Consequences of Reform and Openness’ in Eberhard Sandschneider (ed) The Study of Modern China Hurst, London, 1999, p.52-78.

Other

Goodman DS 1999 ‘State-Society Relations in Reform Shanxi: elite interdependence and accommodation’ in Provincial China No.6 April 1999, p.37-65.

1998

Books

Goodman DS 1998 Huabei Kang Ri genjudi yu shehui shengtai [The Social Ecology of Base Areas in North China during the War of Resistance to Japan] (with Feng Chongyi) Dangdai Zhongguo chubanshe, Beijing, 1998. 278 pp.

Articles

Goodman DS 1998 ‘Are Asia’s “Ethnic Chinese” A Regional Security Threat?’ in Survival Vol.39 no.4 Winter 1997-98, p.140-155.

Goodman DS 1998 ‘In Search of China’s New Middle Classes: the Creation of Wealth and Diversity in Shanxi during the 1990s’ in Asian Studies Review vol.22 no.1 March 1998, p.39-62.

Chapter

Goodman DS 1998 ‘Hainan in Reform: Political Dependence and Economic Interdependence’ (with Feng Chongyi) in Peter T Y Cheung, Jao Ho Chung and Zhimin Li (ed) Provincial Strategies of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China: Leadership, Politics, and Implementation M E Sharpe, New York, 1998, p.342-371.

Goodman DS 1988 ‘1941 nian de Licheng Li Gua Dao bodong: Kang zhan, geming yu songjiao’ [‘The 1941 Li Gua Dao Uprising: Resistance to Japan, Revolution and Religion’] in Feng & Goodman (ed) Huabei Kang Ri genjudi yu shehui shengtai [The Social Ecology of Base Areas in North China during the War of Resistance to Japan] Dangdai Zhongguo chubanshe, Beijing, 1998, p.169-192.

Other

Goodman DS 1998 ‘Die neue Mittelschicht: Neuverteilung von Macht und Wohlstand’ [‘The new middle strata: the redistribution of power and wealth’] in WeltTrends no.20 Herbst 1998, p.25-44.

1997

Books

Goodman DS 1997 China’s Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture Routledge, London, 1997.

Goodman DS 1997 China Rising: nationalism and interdependence (with Gerald Segal) Routledge, London, 1997.

Goodman DS 1997 China without Deng (with Gerald Segal) Harper Collins, Sydney & New York, 1995.

Articles

Goodman DS 1997 ‘The Licheng Rebellion of 1941: class, gender and leadership in the Sino-Japanese War’ in Modern China Vol.23 no.2 April 1997 p.216-245.

Chapter

Goodman DS 1997 ‘China in reform: the view from the provinces’ in David S G Goodman (ed) China’s Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture Routledge, London, 1997, p.1-15.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘Hainan: communal politics and the struggle for identity’ (with Feng Chongyi) in David S G Goodman (ed) China’s Provinces in Reform: Class, community and political culture Routledge, London, 1997, p.53-88.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘Thinking Strategically about China’ (with Gerald Segal) in David S G Goodman and Gerald Segal (ed) China Rising: nationalism and interdependence Routledge, London, 1997, p. 1-5.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘How open is Chinese society ?’ in David S G Goodman and Gerald Segal (ed) China Rising: nationalism and interdependence Routledge, London, 1997, p. 127-52.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘Chengjiao nongcun yu gaige zhiyou: chengshihua yu jiegouxing bianhua’ [‘Suburban Villages and the Roots of Reform: urbanisation and structural change’] in Jiang Pei (ed) Ershi shiji de Zhongguo nongcun shehui [China’s Rural Society in the Twentieth Century] Beijing, Zhongguo dangan chubanshe, 1997, p.354-363.,/p>

Goodman DS 1997 ‘China’s Coming Revolution’ in Partha S Ghosh (ed) Rivalry and Revolution in South and East Asia Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 1997, p.255-278.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘Can China Change ?’ in L Diamond, M F Plattner, Y Chu and H Tien (ed) Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies Vol.2 Regional Challenges The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997, p.250-257.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘China in the Year 2000: prospects for the late reform era’ in R Watters and T McGee (ed) Asia Pacific: The New Geographies of the Pacific Rim Hurst & Company, 1997, p.190-205.

Other

Goodman DS 1997 The Ethnic Chinese in East and Southeast Asia: local insecurities and regional concerns CAPS Paper No.17, 1997, August 1997, Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, Taipei.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘Gaigezhong de Shanxi’ [‘Shanxi in Reform’] in Shanxi caijing xueyuan xuebao [Journal of Shanxi Finance and Economics College] No.2 1997, p.3-7.

Goodman DS 1997 ‘Continental China - The Social and Political Consequences of Reform and Openness’ in China Studies no.3, 1997, p.145-172.

1996

Books

Goodman DS 1996 The New Rich in Asia: Mobile-phones, McDonalds and Middle Class Revolution (with Richard Robison) Routledge, London, 1996.

Other

Goodman DS 1996 ‘China in the Next Century: the outlook for the post-Deng era’ in The Mongolian Journal of International Affairs No.3, 1996, p.21-41.

Chapter

Goodman DS 1996 ‘The new rich in Asia: economic development, social status and political consciousness’ (with R.Robison) in R.Robison and D.S.G.Goodman (ed) The New Rich in Asia:Mobile phones, McDonalds and middle class revolution Routledge, London, 1996, p.1-16.

Goodman DS 1996 ‘The People’s Republic of China: the party-state, capitalist revolution and new entrepreneurs’ in R.Robison and D.S.G.Goodman (ed) The New Rich in Asia:Mobile phones, McDonalds and middle class revolution Routledge, London, 1996, p.225-242.

Goodman DS 1996 ‘Corruption in the PLA’ in Gerald Segal and Richard H Yang (ed) Chinese Economic Reform: the impact on security Routledge, London, 1996, p.35-52.

Goodman DS 1996 ‘The rise of China: economic growth, domestic politics and international relations’ in Roger Bell, Tim McDonald and Alan Tidwell (ed) Negotiating the Pacific Century: the ‘new’ Asia, the United States and Australia Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, p.51-65.

Goodman DS 1996 ‘China’s Provinces and Australia’s States: Sister States and International Mates’ in C Mackerras (ed) Australia and China: Partners in Asia Macmillan, Melbourne, 1996, p.171-195.

1995

Books

Goodman DS 1995 China’s Hainan Province: Economic development and investment environment (with Feng Chongyi) University of Western Australia Press, 1995.