Profile:
Mark W. Frazier is Professor of Politics at The New School, where he also serves as Academic Director of the India China Institute.
His research interests focus on labor and social policy in China, and more recently on political conflict over urbanization, migration, and citizenship in China and India. His forthcoming book, The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press, 2019) examines long-term changes in political geographies and patterns of popular protest in the two cities. He is also the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010) and The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is also Co-Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China (2018, with Weiping Wu). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times, Daedalus, and The Diplomat.
Frazier has been a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations since 2005, and is co-editor of the journal Asia Policy. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow in China in 2004-05. Before assuming his current position at The New School in 2012, he held a chaired professorship in Chinese Politics at the University of Oklahoma and was the Luce Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of East Asia at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin.
Recent Publications:
Books
The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019).
Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010).
The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“The Origins of State Capacity: Workers and Officials in Mid-20th Century Shanghai and Bombay,” in Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared, Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds. Harvard University Press, 2018, pp. 31-61.
"Stemming the Tide of Demographic Transformation Through Social Inclusion: Can Universal Pension Rights Help Finance an Ageing Population," with Y Li., in Beatriz Carrillo et. al. (ed.), Handbook of Welfare in China, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
"The Evolution of a Welfare State under China's State Capitalism" in State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle, Barry Naughton ed., Cambridge University Press, 2015.
"State Schemes or Safety Nets? China's Push for Universal Coverage," Daedalus Vol. 143(2), 2014.
“Welfare Policy Pathways Among Uneven Developers,” in Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation, Scott Kennedy, ed., Stanford University Press, 2011.
“Popular Responses to China’s Emerging Welfare State,” in Chinese Politics: State, Society, and the Market, Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., Routledge Courzon, 2010.
Research Interests:
Chinese politics and the Chinese revolution; urbanization and comparative urban politics; inequality, citizenship, and social policy in China and developing countries.