I am Professor of Political Economy and Assistant Dean. 

My research interests include the development of China and the global south, and broadly the history and theory of socialism. 

Some of my previous writings are listed below:

China and the world:

Xu, Zhun. "On the Protracted Transition to Socialism." Science & Society, 2026.

Xu, Zhun and Wei, Lingyi. "Gradualism and Structural Adjustment in the Chinese Political Economy," Review of Radical Political Economics, 2026.

Xu, Zhun. "Imperialism and Anti-imperialism in the 21st Century." Science & Society, 2024.

Xu, Zhun. "Potential reserve army and diverging paths of transition in (former) socialist economies." Science & Society, 2023.

Xu, Zhun and Wei, Lingyi. "The US Sanctions and the Chinese Political Economy." The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions, 2023.

Xu, Zhun. "The gig economy in China." The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy, 2022.

Xu, Zhun. "Capitalist Dominance and Socialist Ideology: The Potential for Social Change in Today's China." Science & Society, 2021.

Xu, Zhun; Lin, Fangfei; "The political economy of US sanctions against China." Sanctions as war: Anti-imperialist perspectives on American geo-economic strategy, 2021.

Xu, Zhun. "The Ideology of Late Imperialism: The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International." Monthly Review, 2021.

Xu, Zhun. "Economic surplus, the Baran ratio, and capital accumulation." Monthly Review, 2019.

Xu, Zhun; Chen, Ying; Li, Minqi. "Are Chinese workers paid the correct wages? Measuring wage underpayment in the Chinese industrial sector, 2005-2010." Review of Radical Political Economics, 2015.

food and agrarian questions:

Xu, Zhun. "Changing farmland distribution in China." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2024.

Xu, Zhun. "Industrial Agriculture Lessons from North Korea." Monthly Review, 2024.

Xu, Zhun. "Decollectivization, collective legacy, and uneven agricultural development in China." World Development, 2017.

Xu, Zhun. "The achievements, contradictions and demise of the rural collectives in Songzi County, China." Development and Change, 2015.

Xu, Zhun. "Chinese Agrarian change in World-Historical context." Science & Society, 2014.

Xu, Zhun; Zhang, Wei; Li, Minqi. "China's grain production: A decade of consecutive growth or stagnation?" Monthly Review, 2014.

Xu, Zhun. "The Political Economy of Decollectivization in China." Monthly Review, 2013.

health, family or other reproduction related questions

Zhang, Wei and Xu, Zhun. "Gender norms and household labor: time use in the context of social class differentiation in transitional China." Review of Radical Political Economics, 2022.

Xu, Zhun and Zhang, Wei. "The Changing Pattern of Nutrition Intake by Social Class in Contemporary China, 1991–2011." American Journal of Public Health, 2017.

Xu, Zhun and Zhang, Wei. "Commodification and Westernization: Explaining Declining Nutritional Intake in Contemporary Rural China." Journal of Agrarian Change, 2015.

Lundquist, Jennifer and Xu, Zhun. "Reinstitutionalizing families: Life course policy and marriage in the military." Journal of Marriage and Family, 2014.