Publications
China's Fiscal and Financial Governance
ZHANG, Shidai, and Kellee S. TSAI. (2024). “One System, Two Shadows": A Local Public Finance Perspective on China’s Shadow Banking System. China Economic Review 87, Article 102209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2024.102209.
- Elsevier China Economic Review Best Paper Award 2024
ZHANG, Shidai, and Chen LI. (2025). Cadre Personnel Management and the Central-Local Relations of China’s Financial Governance: The Rise of 'Airlifted' Vice-Provincial Governors in Financial Affairs. Journal of Contemporary China 34(154), 646-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2024.2361840.
Chinese Society and Social Governance
ZHANG, Shidai. (2026). “‘Xueba Couples’: Meritocratic Romance and the Politics of Soft Paternalistic Model-Making Propaganda in China”. The Journal of Asian Studies 85(2), May 2026, forthcoming.
- Presented at the 2025 British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) Annual Conference, held at the University of Leicester, Leicester, 3-5 September 2025.
- Presented at the 3rd "Chinese Politics, Research Frontiers" Workshop, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 21 September 2024.
- Presented at the 81st Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 4-7 April 2024.
- Presented at “Gender, Intimacy, and Class: The Individual and Social Change in China” Workshop, organized by Prof. David S. G. GOODMAN, China Studies Centre, at University of Sydney Centre in China, Suzhou, 13-17 September 2023.