Günter Schubert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Günter Schubert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Günter |
| FAMILY NAME | Schubert |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUBERT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
China’s Failed Imperial Outreach to Taiwan
This paper examines China’s imperial outreach to Taiwan. It first traces a set of imperial practices being pursued under Xi Jinping, which aim to establish dependencies in Taiwan and other areas in China’s near and far peripheries. It then examines how these practices impact Taiwan specifically, their effectiveness in establishing Chinese control over the island, and how they create a Taiwanese dependence on China. As the analysis shows, Taiwan p…
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan
"This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. Written by an international team of Taiwan experts, the Handbook includes major topics in Taiwanese history, domestic politics, political economy, society, culture and international relations. Each chapter summarises the major findings in the field and highlights long-term tre…
China in the era of ‘Top-level design: Hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking
This article reviews the history and working mode of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform (CCCDR) to shed light on the underpinnings of 'top-level design' in China's policy process. We demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the CCCDR's 'hard steering': on the one hand, agenda-setting and the creation of major reform policies has been centralized and highly formalized; on the other hand, local circumstances are not adequately…
Die politischen Systeme Ostasiens: Eine Einführung
Nothing New Under “Top-Level Design”? A Review of the Conceptual Literature on Local Policymaking in China
Scholarship on local governance in China in general and on the Chinese policy process in particular has expanded remarkably over the last four decades. Where earlier studies were mostly interested in grasping the dynamics of central-local relations, more specific features like performance evaluation systems or policy implementation processes have come under scholarly scrutiny over the course of time. New theoretical concepts have been introduced …
Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing-Wen: Navigating in Stormy Waters
Delimiting ‘Cross-Strait Studies’: Kua’an (跨岸) vs. Liang’an (兩岸)
International audience
Immigration Governance in East Asia: Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship
Studying the Chinese Policy Process in the Era of ‘Top-Level Design: The Contribution of ‘Political Steering’ Theory
Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China
This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the debate on China’s private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic group” within the Chinese polity. While they do not openly challenge the current regime, they continuously alter the power balance within the current regime coalition, which connects them to the party-state at all administrative levels. As the future of Chinese socialism…
Assessing the Presidency of Ma Ying-jiu in Taiwan: Hopeful Beginning, Hopeless End?
This chapter assesses Taiwan’s public diplomacy during the Ma Ying-jiu era. Ma believed strongly in Taiwan’s soft power and the contribution that public diplomacy can make to attaining more international visibility and influence. Rawnsley’s core argument is that Taiwan has substantial soft power, but needs to improve its public diplomacy efforts in order to make good use of it. More precisely, the dissolution of the Government Information Office …
The State of the Field of Global Taiwan Studies Institutions: A Time for Optimism or Pessimism
Conference' at SOAS, University of London.The conference aimed to bring together representatives from the leading Taiwan studies programmes in Europe and North America to discuss our experiences and how to make our programmes more sustainable.Following the conference, I published an upbeat essay in the Taiwan Sentinel arguing that we are now experiencing a golden era of Taiwan studies (Fell, 2017).This was followed by two more
Forum 1: Linking the Taiwan Studies and China Studies Fields: How to Argue for the Faculty Recruitment of Taiwan Scholars at Western Universities
Political Reform and Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China
Are Taiwanese Entrepreneurs a Strategic Group
This article applies the “strategic group” concept to Taiwanese entrepreneurs (taishang), who have businesses in both Taiwan and Mainland China, to analyze their political agency in safeguarding their collective interests. Based on extensive fieldwork, the authors look at taishang collective action in both formal and informal settings to assess whether the taishang can be considered a strategic group in contemporary cross-Strait relations
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan
Whither local governance in contemporary China? Reconfiguration for more effective policy implementation
This article describes China's reorganization of its local governance system since the early 2000s. Policy shifts, administrative restructuring and intensified public inclusion have considerably modified local governance, especially in the country's vast rural areas and, we argue, have laid the groundwork for continuous and more effective policy implementation amidst increasing complexity and challenges. Based on years of fieldwork on new rural d…
Taiwan and The 'China Impact': Challenges and Opportunities
Foreword Michael H.H. Hsiao 1. Introduction Gunter Schubert Part I: The 'China Impact' on Taiwan's Domestic Politics 2. The PRC as a Player in Taiwan's Domestic Politics: A Two-Level Game Analysis Lin Jih-wen 3. Cross-Strait Relations as an Easy Issue: China's Impact on Evidence Provision in Negative Political Campaigning in Taiwan Yun Ted Hsuan & Wu Chung-li (Ted Hsuan Yun Chen) 4. The China Impact on Taiwan's Elections: Cross-Strait Economic In…
Effective Policy Implementation in China’s Local State
Effective policy implementation is a core component of the Chinese political system’s adaptability and stability. A thorough investigation of local implementation mechanisms, however, is often hindered by an almost exclusive concentration on implementation efficiency. This article introduces a new analytical framework and suggests focusing on the interactions between the different administrative tiers—counties, townships, and villages—to understa…
Political Legitimacy in Contemporary China Revisited: Theoretical refinement and empirical operationalization
In the first part of this article the author comments on Peter Sandby-Thomas' contribution and critically assesses his suggestion to focus on 'legitimation' instead of 'legitimacy' when investigating the Chinese political system. In the second part, the author, in an effort to refine his analytical model to study legitimacy presented in an earlier article published in this journal, argues for combining Eastonian systems analysis and policy analys…
Einfluß Verschiedener Relativer Luftfeuchtigkeiten und Temperaturen Auf Die Laufverhältnisse, Auf Die Gleichmäßigkeit und Auf Die Dynamometrischen Eigenschaften der Gefertigten Garne
Assessing political agency across the Taiwan Strait: The case of the taishang
The migration of Taiwanese to the Chinese mainland is one of the most striking features of the deepening interaction and integration across the Taiwan Strait. Among these newcomers, Taiwanese businesspeople ( taishang) have long since been considered an important 'linkage community' that profoundly affects the dynamics of cross-Strait relations. However, to what extent can and do they exert political agency in cross-Strait relations? Drawing on r…
Taiwanese Identity in the 21st Century
Contemporary Taiwan Studies in Europe: More Institutionalized, More Vital
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2012: Taiwan under KMT Rule: Recent Trends in Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations
No Winds of Change: Taiwan's 2012 National Elections and the Post-Election Fallout
Taiwan held its first combined national elections on 14 January 2012. Though the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the largest opposition party, fared much better in the Legislative Yuan elections than it did in 2008, DPP presidential contender Tsai Ying-wen's (Cai Yingwen) clear defeat at the hands of the Kuomintang (KMT, Guomindang) incumbent, Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu), in the presidential race came as a surprise. The article examines the ele…
Effective Policy Implementation in China’s Local State
Effective policy implementation is a core component of the Chinese political system’s adaptability and stability. A thorough investigation of local implementation mechanisms, however, is often hindered by an almost exclusive concentration on implementation efficiency. This article introduces a new analytical framework and suggests focusing on the interactions between the different administrative tiers—counties, townships, and villages—to understa…
Building a New Socialist Countryside” – Only a Political Slogan
In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central government's intention to “build a new socialist countryside”, a new policy initiative and approach to rural development. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two Chinese counties in 2008 and 2009, this article investigates how the new policy is being substantiated and implemented at the local level. It argues that by combining China's new fiscal system of transfer …
Whither local governance in contemporary China? Reconfiguration for more effective policy implementation
This article describes China's reorganization of its local governance system since the early 2000s. Policy shifts, administrative restructuring and intensified public inclusion have considerably modified local governance, especially in the country's vast rural areas and, we argue, have laid the groundwork for continuous and more effective policy implementation amidst increasing complexity and challenges. Based on years of fieldwork on new rural d…
County and Township Cadres as a Strategic Group: “Building a New Socialist Countryside” in Three Provinces
One-Party Rule and the Question of Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Preliminary thoughts on setting up a new research agenda * Gunter Schubert, Ph.D., is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies at t…
Most scholarly research takes for granted that political legitimacy in contemporary China is precarious and that the current regime suffers from a legitimacy crisis only superficially covered by economic development and nationalism. Political reform—branded as zhengzhi tizhi gaige—is not considered viable and usually discredited as too limited and manipulated by the Communist Party as to deserve its name. Consequently, the impact of these reforms…
Studying the Chinese Policy Process in the Era of ‘Top-Level Design: The Contribution of ‘Political Steering’ Theory
Agents of Taiwan-China Unification? The Political Roles of Taiwanese Business People in the Process of Cross-Strait Integration
The political roles of Taiwanese business people (taishang) in cross-strait relations have been increasingly noteworthy under Hu Jintao's policy of "counting on the Taiwanese people." But contrary to widely accepted allegations, this paper argues that attempts by China to use Taiwanese business people as a means to gain political leverage over Taiwan will probably not pan out as a successful strategy
Taiwan's Political Parties and National Identity: The Rise of an Overarching Consensus
National identity is still one of the most contentious issues in present-day Taiwan. At the surface level, the confrontation between the “pan-blue” and “pan-green” party camps suggests the existence of competing and irreconcilable national identities. However, the overall quest for Taiwanese sovereignty against Beijing's insistence on the “one country, two systems” formula suggests the rise of an overarching consensus between all political partie…
Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China
This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the debate on China’s private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic group” within the Chinese polity. While they do not openly challenge the current regime, they continuously alter the power balance within the current regime coalition, which connects them to the party-state at all administrative levels. As the future of Chinese socialism…
Studying ‘Democratic’ Governance in Contemporary China: Looking at the village is not enough
Though it is important that future research on village elections focuses more systematically on the post-election period than on ongoing electoral institutionalization, it is not enough to look at the village level alone if one wants to assess the quality of village governance. What we need is a more comprehensive framework that includes an analysis of election procedures, cadre behaviour, villager awareness, and the larger cultural context, whic…
Political Legitimacy in Contemporary China Revisited: Theoretical refinement and empirical operationalization
In the first part of this article the author comments on Peter Sandby-Thomas' contribution and critically assesses his suggestion to focus on 'legitimation' instead of 'legitimacy' when investigating the Chinese political system. In the second part, the author, in an effort to refine his analytical model to study legitimacy presented in an earlier article published in this journal, argues for combining Eastonian systems analysis and policy analys…
The State of the Field of Global Taiwan Studies Institutions: A Time for Optimism or Pessimism
Conference' at SOAS, University of London.The conference aimed to bring together representatives from the leading Taiwan studies programmes in Europe and North America to discuss our experiences and how to make our programmes more sustainable.Following the conference, I published an upbeat essay in the Taiwan Sentinel arguing that we are now experiencing a golden era of Taiwan studies (Fell, 2017).This was followed by two more
Constructing a New Socialist Countryside’ and Beyond: An Analytical Framework for Studying Policy Implementation and Political Stability in Contemporary China
The Political Thinking of the Mainland Taishang: Some Preliminary Observations from the Field
This article explores the political thinking of Taiwanese business people ( taishang) and factory managers ( taigan) on the Chinese mainland by drawing on qualitative data gathered between 2006 and 2008 in the Pearl River Delta and the Shanghai/ Kunshan metropolitan area. An ideal type of taishang is constructed to explain the major features of their identification with Taiwan, their perspectives on cross-Strait relations, their integration in Ch…
Forum 1: Linking the Taiwan Studies and China Studies Fields: How to Argue for the Faculty Recruitment of Taiwan Scholars at Western Universities
Assessing political agency across the Taiwan Strait: The case of the taishang
The migration of Taiwanese to the Chinese mainland is one of the most striking features of the deepening interaction and integration across the Taiwan Strait. Among these newcomers, Taiwanese businesspeople ( taishang) have long since been considered an important 'linkage community' that profoundly affects the dynamics of cross-Strait relations. However, to what extent can and do they exert political agency in cross-Strait relations? Drawing on r…
No Winds of Change: Taiwan's 2012 National Elections and the Post-Election Fallout
Taiwan held its first combined national elections on 14 January 2012. Though the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the largest opposition party, fared much better in the Legislative Yuan elections than it did in 2008, DPP presidential contender Tsai Ying-wen's (Cai Yingwen) clear defeat at the hands of the Kuomintang (KMT, Guomindang) incumbent, Ma Ying-jeou (Ma Yingjiu), in the presidential race came as a surprise. The article examines the ele…
Democratic thought and practice in rural China
Chinese democratization is usually thought of as a top-down process sponsored by a reform-minded government and liberal intellectuals. At the turn of the millennium, however, no such development is in sight. Only recently have Western scholars begun to look to the countryside for finding ‘sprouts of democracy’. This study explores village self-government as a possibility of making local political practices the foundation of an emerging rights con…
China in the era of ‘Top-level design: Hard steering by the central commission for comprehensively deepening reform (CCCDR) in National policymaking
This article reviews the history and working mode of the Central Commission for Comprehensively Deepening Reform (CCCDR) to shed light on the underpinnings of 'top-level design' in China's policy process. We demonstrate the paradoxical nature of the CCCDR's 'hard steering': on the one hand, agenda-setting and the creation of major reform policies has been centralized and highly formalized; on the other hand, local circumstances are not adequately…
Are Taiwanese Entrepreneurs a Strategic Group
This article applies the “strategic group” concept to Taiwanese entrepreneurs (taishang), who have businesses in both Taiwan and Mainland China, to analyze their political agency in safeguarding their collective interests. Based on extensive fieldwork, the authors look at taishang collective action in both formal and informal settings to assess whether the taishang can be considered a strategic group in contemporary cross-Strait relations
Cross-Strait Integration – A New Research Focus in the Taiwan Studies Field
L’émergence d’une nouvelle nation ? Le discours sur l’identité nationale dans le Taiwan de la fin du XXe siècle
Taiwan an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert. Gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Probleme und Perspektiven eines asiatischen Schwellenlandes
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 400 - 405
Mitlaufen oder Mitbestimmen. Untersuchung zum demokratischen Bewusstsein und zur politischen Tradition
Reibungsmessungen an den Leitorganen garn- und zwirnverarbeitender Maschinen
Demokratische Institutionalisierung in Ost- und Südostasien: Verlaufsmuster und Perspektiven in Taiwan, Südkorea, Thailand und den Philippinen
Die Schwellenländer Ost- und Südostasiens haben wegen ihrer eindrucksvollen Wachstumsraten viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen. Weniger beachtet wurden hingegen die markanten politischen Veränderungen der letzten Jahre. Angefangen mit der “Revolution der Rosenkränze” (oft “people power” genannt) auf den Philippinen im Jahre 1986 kam es zu demokratischen Systemwechseln in Taiwan (1986/87) und Südkorea (1987) sowie zu einem Prozeß erneuter Redemok…
Blockierte Demokratien in der Dritten Welt
Taiwan an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert. Gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Probleme und Perspektiven eines asiatischen Schwellenlandes
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 400 - 405
L’émergence d’une nouvelle nation ? Le discours sur l’identité nationale dans le Taiwan de la fin du XXe siècle
Das politische System Taiwans
Die Darstellung des politischen Systems Taiwans im Kontext von Modernisierung und Wandel erfolgt in drei Schritten: Zunächst wird der geschichtliche Hintergund beleuchtet, wobei zwischen der vorjapanischen Periode, der japanischen Kolonialära und der Zeit nach dem Anschluss an die chinesische Republik Ende des 2. Weltkriegs zu unterscheiden ist. Damit steht der Rahmen bereit, in dem der beeindruckende Wandel Taiwans zum demokratischen Verfassungs…
Einführung in die politischen Systeme Ostasiens: VR China, Hongkong, Japan, Nordkorea, Südkorea, Taiwan
La démocratie peut-elle coexister avec le Parti unique ? [Appréciation nuancée des élections villageoises et cantonales en Chine]: Appréciation nuancée des élections villageoises et cantonales en Chin…
La dmocratie peut-elle coexister avec le
Taiwan's Political Parties and National Identity: The Rise of an Overarching Consensus
National identity is still one of the most contentious issues in present-day Taiwan. At the surface level, the confrontation between the “pan-blue” and “pan-green” party camps suggests the existence of competing and irreconcilable national identities. However, the overall quest for Taiwanese sovereignty against Beijing's insistence on the “one country, two systems” formula suggests the rise of an overarching consensus between all political partie…
Democratic thought and practice in rural China
Chinese democratization is usually thought of as a top-down process sponsored by a reform-minded government and liberal intellectuals. At the turn of the millennium, however, no such development is in sight. Only recently have Western scholars begun to look to the countryside for finding ‘sprouts of democracy’. This study explores village self-government as a possibility of making local political practices the foundation of an emerging rights con…
One-Party Rule and the Question of Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Preliminary thoughts on setting up a new research agenda * Gunter Schubert, Ph.D., is Chair Professor of Greater China Studies at t…
Most scholarly research takes for granted that political legitimacy in contemporary China is precarious and that the current regime suffers from a legitimacy crisis only superficially covered by economic development and nationalism. Political reform—branded as zhengzhi tizhi gaige—is not considered viable and usually discredited as too limited and manipulated by the Communist Party as to deserve its name. Consequently, the impact of these reforms…
Les élections de village en Chine contemporaine: De nouveaux espaces de légitimité pour le pouvoir
Schubert Gunter, Xuelian Chen, Bardon Séverine. Les élections de village en Chine contemporaine : de nouveaux espaces de légitimité pour le pouvoir ?. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°100, 2007. pp. 13-29
Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China
Die Autoren präsentieren Teilergebnisse eines Forschungsvorhabens, das sich mit dem politischen Bewusstsein in der VR China im Kontext lokaler Partizipationsprozesse befasst hat. Untersucht wurde dabei die Einwirkung unterschiedlicher institutioneller Reformen der Partizipationserweiterung auf das politische Bewusstsein und Verhalten der ländlichen und urbanen Bevölkerung. Gerade in gesellschaftlichen Umbruchphasen büßen alte Orientierungsmuster …
Politische Partizipation und Regimelegitimität in der VR China: Band I
Building a New Socialist Countryside” – Only a Political Slogan
In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central government's intention to “build a new socialist countryside”, a new policy initiative and approach to rural development. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two Chinese counties in 2008 and 2009, this article investigates how the new policy is being substantiated and implemented at the local level. It argues that by combining China's new fiscal system of transfer …
Studying ‘Democratic’ Governance in Contemporary China: Looking at the village is not enough
Though it is important that future research on village elections focuses more systematically on the post-election period than on ongoing electoral institutionalization, it is not enough to look at the village level alone if one wants to assess the quality of village governance. What we need is a more comprehensive framework that includes an analysis of election procedures, cadre behaviour, villager awareness, and the larger cultural context, whic…
Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional Change and Stability
The Political Thinking of the Mainland Taishang: Some Preliminary Observations from the Field
This article explores the political thinking of Taiwanese business people ( taishang) and factory managers ( taigan) on the Chinese mainland by drawing on qualitative data gathered between 2006 and 2008 in the Pearl River Delta and the Shanghai/ Kunshan metropolitan area. An ideal type of taishang is constructed to explain the major features of their identification with Taiwan, their perspectives on cross-Strait relations, their integration in Ch…
Cross-Strait Integration – A New Research Focus in the Taiwan Studies Field
Agents of Taiwan-China Unification? The Political Roles of Taiwanese Business People in the Process of Cross-Strait Integration
The political roles of Taiwanese business people (taishang) in cross-strait relations have been increasingly noteworthy under Hu Jintao's policy of "counting on the Taiwanese people." But contrary to widely accepted allegations, this paper argues that attempts by China to use Taiwanese business people as a means to gain political leverage over Taiwan will probably not pan out as a successful strategy
Taiwanese identity in the twenty-first century: Domestic, regional, and global perspectives
Introduction, Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm Part I: Domestic Perspectives 1. Legacies of Memory and Belonging in Taiwan History, Ann Heylen 2. Perspectives on 228: The 28 February 1947 Uprising in Contemporary Taiwan, Stefan Fleischauer 3. The Evolution of the KMT's Stance on the One-China Principle: National Identity in Flux, Wu Yu-shan 4. How to Face an Embracing China? The DPP's Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations During and After the…
Constructing a New Socialist Countryside’ and Beyond: An Analytical Framework for Studying Policy Implementation and Political Stability in Contemporary China
Taiwanese Identity in the 21st Century
Contemporary Taiwan Studies in Europe: More Institutionalized, More Vital
Introduction to Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2012: Taiwan under KMT Rule: Recent Trends in Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations
Political science (38 works) · China (28 works) · Law (23 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (22 works) · Politics (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (17 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (14 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (13 works)