Some of my writings:
A. On agrarian questions
Industrial agriculture: lessons from North Korea, 2024, Monthly Review
Changing farmland distribution in China , 2024, Journal of Peasant Studies
Farm size, capitalism, and the overuse of agricultural chemical, 2020, Capitalism Nature Socialism
From Commune to Capitalism ,2018, Monthly Review Press
Decollectivization, Collective Legacy and Uneven Agricultural Development in China, Oct 2017 World Development
The Development of Capitalist Agriculture in China, Dec 2017, Review of Radical Political Economics.
Stratification, Incentives and the Fall of the Rural Collectives in Songzi County in China, 2015, Development and Change
China’s Grain Production: Ten Years of Consecutive Growth or A Decade of Stagnation? (Zhun Xu, Wei Zhang, Minqi Li), 2014 May, Monthly Review
Chinese Agrarian Change in World-historical Context, 2014, Science & Society
The Political Economy of Decollectivization in China ,2013, Monthly Review
The Chinese Agriculture Miracle Revisited, 2012, Economic and Political Weekly
B. health and family issues
China’s changing COVID policies: market and public health, 2025, Review of Radical Political Economics
Gender norms and household labor: time use in the context of class differentiation in China, (with Wei Zhang), 2022, Review of Radical Political Economics
Explaining the changing class-nutrition relationship in China (with Wei Zhang), Nov 2017, American Journal of Public Health
Food dependency and food crisis , 2019, International Critical Thought
Commodification and Westernization: Explaining declining nutrition intake in contemporary rural China (with Wei Zhang), Journal of Agrarian Change, 2015
Do Black-White Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding Persist in the Military Community? (Jennifer Lundquist, Zhun Xu, Wanda Barfield, Irma Elo), 2015 , Maternal and Child Health Journal.
Reinstitutionalizing Families: Life Course Policy and Marriage in the Military (Jennifer Lundquist, Zhun Xu), Journal of Marriage and Family.2014
Racial Disparities in U.S. Infant Birth Outcomes: A Mediating Effect of Military Affiliation? (Jennifer Lundquist, Irma Elo, Wanda Barfield, Zhun Xu), 2014, Race and Social Problems
C. China and the world system
China as "inter-national": a political economy analysis, work in progress
The question of national bourgeoisie in the 21st century, working paper
The US sanctions and the Chinese political economy, with Lingyi Wei, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions, edited by Ksenia Kirkham, 2023
The potential reserve army and the transition to capitalism, 2023, revised version in Science & Society
Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, 2022, in Before the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Historical Companion, edited by Martin Gutmann and Daniel Gorman, Oxford Univ Press
The gig economy in China, 2022, Routledge Handbook of the gig economy, edited by Manny Ness
The Political Economy of US Sanctions against China, with Fangfei Li, 2022, Sanctions as War, edited by Manny Ness and Stuart Davis
Capitalist Dominance and Socialist Ideology: The Potential for Social Change in Today’s China, 2021, Science & Society
The Ideology of Late Imperialism: The Return of the Geopolitics of the Second International, 2021, Monthly Review
Spatial shift in China’s labor struggles: evidence and implication , with Ying Chen, March 2019, Journal of Labor and Society
Economic surplus, the Baran ratio and capital accumulation, March 2019, Monthly Review
The future of labor and capital in China, (An Li, Zhun Xu), 2020, Routledge handbook of transformative global studies
Informal economy and China’s economic development (with Ying Chen), Dec 2017, The Chinese Economy
Are Chinese Workers Paid the Correct Wages? Measuring Wage Underpayment in the Chinese Industrial Sector, 2005-2010 (Zhun Xu, Ying Chen, Minqi Li), 2015, Review of Radical Political Economics
D. 部分中文文章
如今谁知盘中餐:华莱士、白兰瓜与食物政治经济学 ,读书,2024年11月
重思世界贫困与资本主义,中国社会科学报,2024年5月
国际粮食体系的政治经济学,政治经济学评论,2024
经济增长的“大账”思维——兼论为何不应恐慌政府债务,文化纵横,2023
如果把学术的庸俗化看成是“怪现状”,那么理论分析和想象力匮乏亦然(对刘思达文章的评论),澎湃思想市场,2023
杰弗里·萨克斯与后冷战时代,读书杂志,2023
社科城头大王旗:从经济学拥有诺贝尔奖说起,读书杂志,2022
粮仓或是粮荒,读书杂志,2022
放血疗法与当代欧美宏观治理,读书杂志,2023
“剩余”和规模难题:第三世界的发展问题,文化纵横,2023
为什么美国工会斗争空间越来越狭窄,文化纵横,2022
都留重人与冷战初期的美国知识界,澎湃思想市场,2022
《科学与社会》:一份美国左翼刊物历经坎坷的85年,澎湃思想市场, 2021