Welser, Howard T.
PART TIME FACULTY
Hall, Aileen
AFFILIATED FACULTY
SEMI-RETIRED FACULTY
Jieli Li
Associate Professor and
Director, International Development Studies Program
Ph.D.: University of California-Riverside, 1996
Contact Information:
Areas of Specialization:
Social Change, Theory, Institutions, Conflict and Resolution
Courses Taught:
Soc 101: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 329: Race and Ethnic Relations
Soc 403/503: Development of Social Thought
Soc 404: Modern Social Theory
Soc 430/530: Sociology Of Organizations
Soc 465/565: Social Change
Soc 609: Seminar in Social Change and Development
Soc 616: Seminar in Sociological Theory
INST 610D: Proseminar on International Development Studies
Selected Publications:
Jieli Li, Yi Feng and Ismene Gizelis. 2008. "China's New Social Security System in the Making: Problems and Prospects" International Journal of Public Administration, 31(1), 5-23.
Jieli Li (ed.), 2007. Sociology in Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (in Chinese). Beijing, China Renmin University Press.
Jieli Li, 2007. “New Trends and Contested Issues in Western Sociological Theory,” in J. Li (ed.) Sociology in Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing: China Renmin University Press, pp. 4-28.
Jieli Li, 2005. “Democratic Development in Taiwan” in China Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the People’s Republic, edited by Luo Jing. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, pp. 601-604.
Jieli Li. 2004. "Issues on Political and Cultural Identities in the Process of Democratization", Proceedings of International Symposium on National Identity and the Future Cross-Strait Relations, University of Macau,
December 2004, Pp. 93-107.
Jieli Li, 2004. “Democratization vs. Taiwanization” in Taiwan in the Eyes of Chinese-American Scholars –Critical Analyses of Taiwanese Society, eds. S. Lu and S. Tian (Taipei, Taiwan: Showei Publisher of Social Science Academic Series, 2004), Pp. 11-39.
Jieli Li. 2003. “Democratic Transition in Taiwan: The Paradox of ‘Taiwanization’” in X. Li and Z. Pan (eds.) Taiwan in the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: American University Press, pp. 215-227.
Jieli Li. 2002. “State Fragmentation: Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Territorial Power of the State.” Sociological Theory. 20(2):139-156.
Jieli Li. 2002. “Family and Social Trends” in G. Xu (ed.) World Eras Vol. 7: Imperial China: 617-1644. New York: Thomson/Gale, pp. 313-362.
Jieli Li. 2001. "Critical Theory," and "Racial Theories," Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, edited by R.J. Barry Jones, Vol. 1: Pp. 271-272, Vol. 2: Pp. 1296-1298. London: Routledge.
Jieli Li. 2000. “Interaction Ritual As a Mobilizing Force of Collective Action: The Rise of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement,” Southeast Sociological Review, 1: 32-45.
Tickamyer Ann, and Jieli Li. 2000. "Macrosociology," Encyclopedia of Sociology, Second Edition, edited by Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, Pp. 1703-1712. New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
Jieli Li. 2000. “The Game of Three: Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Relations Among China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.” American Review of Chinese Studies, 1(2) (winter): 91-103.
Jieli Li. 2000. “Exploring Asian Americans: The Myth of the ‘Model Minority’ and the Reality of Their Lives,” in Amanda Konradi and Martha Schmidt (eds.) Reading Between the Lines: Toward an Understanding of Current Social Problems, (2nd edition). Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company.
Jieli Li. 1998. “Geopolitical Dynamics of State Change: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Civil War and the Chinese Taiping Rebellion,” Michigan Sociological Review, 12 (Fall): 24-49.
Yi Feng and Jieli Li, 1997. “Domestic Constraints and International Competitiveness,” Journal of Contemporary China, 6(15), 377-387.
Jieli Li. 1996. "The Structural Strains of China's Socio-legal System: A Transition to Formal Legalism?" International Journal of the Sociology of Law 24: 41-59.
Jieli Li. 1993. "Geopolitics of the Chinese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century" Sociological Perspectives 36 (4): 335-357.