Warmest congratulations to Prof. Nellie Chu on the release of her new book, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, published by Duke University Press on February 3, 2026! This 280-page work—enriched with 10 illustrative visuals—offers an extraordinary deep dive into the lives of migrant entrepreneurs at the core of Guangzhou’s

We’re delighted to shine a light on a remarkable new publication! Prof. Lincoln Rathnam’s The Practice of Skepticism: Montaigne and Zhuangzi on Freedom, Coexistence, and the Limits of Government has just been released in electronic form (with the physical edition coming in March) via Oxford University Press. As part of

Duke Kunshan University Professor Charles Chang has recently been awarded the 2024 James Caporaso Best Paper Award for his paper published in the journal Comparative Political Studies. The paper, co-authored with Harvard University Professor Yuhua Wang, is titled “The Reach of the State.” Building upon existing literature, their work conceptualizes

Professor Seongkyung Cho published an article on AI-chatbot adoption in governments in the leading journal Government Information Quarterly. Based on a mixed-method design examining Korean government employees, the research finds that trust in AI chatbots significantly drives chatbot adoption, with organizational support serving as a critical moderating factor that amplifies

On 4 June 2025, Duke Kunshan University Associate Professor Andrew Cheon published the article “Greening State Capitalism in an Era of Climate Change and Great Power Competition” in The National Interest. Governments and their national (i.e., state-owned) oil companies (NOCs), which claim up to an estimated 90% of the world’s oil and natural