Zhongjin Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhongjin Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhongjin |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7748-2453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Riding out the Storm: How State-Owned Enterprises in China Fought the Covid Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economic and social activities worldwide, exposing and exacerbating inherent flaws in the capitalist system. The pandemic’s devastating impact highlights the need for the state and its institutional agencies to actively intervene in public health crises and mitigate the economic damage they cause. This article situates the effectiveness and contribution of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the context of the COVID …
Cross-Boundary Subsumption: Toward a Political Economy of Platform Labor
The existing body of research on the platform economy provides a variety of interpretations of platform labor. Nevertheless, current studies have either placed exchange rather than production at the core of their interpretations or overlooked the historical continuity of the type of labor to which platform labor belongs. Employing a historical-comparative approach, this article introduces the concept of “cross-boundary subsumption” to illuminate …
The Profitability Puzzle of Digital Labor Platforms
By examining digital labor platforms that connect customers with gig workers, we attempt to solve the puzzle concerning why these labor platforms, such as ride-hailing companies and food delivery companies, continue to suffer weak profitability even though they promise a more efficient way to mobilize and utilize the platform’s labor force. Stylized facts on the profitability of the top ten global labor platforms and a descriptive analysis of the…
Beyond state and market: The role of labor regimes and class dynamics in the East Asian miracle
While conventional wisdom focuses on the roles of the state and the market in achieving high growth in East Asian countries, this paper offers an account focused on class dynamics. First, the paper connects post-World War II class dynamics in Japan and South Korea to the distributional outcome, i.e., the gap between labor productivity growth and real wage growth. Statistical evidence and econometric tests suggest a positive relationship between a…
Control of the Platform Reserve Army: The Roles of the State and Capital in China's Platform Economy
The rise of digital platforms has formed a platform reserve army. The platform reserve army is the stagnant reserve army of contemporary digital capitalism, which brings challenges to labor control. Using data collected from an original survey of over 600 ride-hailing drivers in two Chinese cities, the roles of the state and capital, as well as their interactions in shaping capital's control over the platform reserve army in China, are clarified.…
Is China Imperialist? Economy, State, and Insertion in the Global System
According to Marxist theory, imperialism is not a policy pursued by certain states, but rather a structural relation emerging from the dynamics of some modes of production. In the capitalist era the profit and accumulation drive underlies the establishment of imperialist relations. This paper applies historical materialism to analyze the political-economic system in China today to determine the forces that have shaped China’s insertion into the g…
Building community-centered social infrastructure: A feminist inquiry into China’s Covid-19 experiences
Giovanni Arrighi in Beijing: Rethinking the Transformation of the Labor Supply in Rural China during the Reform Era
A Marxian political economy perspective is essential to analysis of the transformation of rural labor forces into capitalist wage labor in China during the reform era. Orthodox theory depicts this transformation as a market-driven process in which the state played a passive role. Following Giovanni Arrighi's seminal 1970 article, we seek to show that the transformation of labor supply and the formation of an industrial reserve army is a historica…
Guojinmintui: A New Round of Debate in China on State Versus Private Ownership
In 2009, the widening discrepancy between the performance of the state economy and that of the private economy in China triggered a sharp debate on the evolving system, especially the ownership structure, among people in academia, business and the political arena. In the debate, the rightists launched a campaign against the state-owned sector with false claims and misleading rhetoric, while the Party and state officials defended the state economy…
Giovanni Arrighi in Beijing: Rethinking the Transformation of the Labor Supply in Rural China during the Reform Era
A Marxian political economy perspective is essential to analysis of the transformation of rural labor forces into capitalist wage labor in China during the reform era. Orthodox theory depicts this transformation as a market-driven process in which the state played a passive role. Following Giovanni Arrighi's seminal 1970 article, we seek to show that the transformation of labor supply and the formation of an industrial reserve army is a historica…
Riding out the Storm: How State-Owned Enterprises in China Fought the Covid Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economic and social activities worldwide, exposing and exacerbating inherent flaws in the capitalist system. The pandemic’s devastating impact highlights the need for the state and its institutional agencies to actively intervene in public health crises and mitigate the economic damage they cause. This article situates the effectiveness and contribution of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the context of the COVID …
Building community-centered social infrastructure: A feminist inquiry into China’s Covid-19 experiences
Guojinmintui: A New Round of Debate in China on State Versus Private Ownership
In 2009, the widening discrepancy between the performance of the state economy and that of the private economy in China triggered a sharp debate on the evolving system, especially the ownership structure, among people in academia, business and the political arena. In the debate, the rightists launched a campaign against the state-owned sector with false claims and misleading rhetoric, while the Party and state officials defended the state economy…
Guojinmintui: A New Round of Debate in China on State Versus Private Ownership
In 2009, the widening discrepancy between the performance of the state economy and that of the private economy in China triggered a sharp debate on the evolving system, especially the ownership structure, among people in academia, business and the political arena. In the debate, the rightists launched a campaign against the state-owned sector with false claims and misleading rhetoric, while the Party and state officials defended the state economy…
Giovanni Arrighi in Beijing: Rethinking the Transformation of the Labor Supply in Rural China during the Reform Era
A Marxian political economy perspective is essential to analysis of the transformation of rural labor forces into capitalist wage labor in China during the reform era. Orthodox theory depicts this transformation as a market-driven process in which the state played a passive role. Following Giovanni Arrighi's seminal 1970 article, we seek to show that the transformation of labor supply and the formation of an industrial reserve army is a historica…
Is China Imperialist? Economy, State, and Insertion in the Global System
According to Marxist theory, imperialism is not a policy pursued by certain states, but rather a structural relation emerging from the dynamics of some modes of production. In the capitalist era the profit and accumulation drive underlies the establishment of imperialist relations. This paper applies historical materialism to analyze the political-economic system in China today to determine the forces that have shaped China’s insertion into the g…
Building community-centered social infrastructure: A feminist inquiry into China’s Covid-19 experiences
The Profitability Puzzle of Digital Labor Platforms
By examining digital labor platforms that connect customers with gig workers, we attempt to solve the puzzle concerning why these labor platforms, such as ride-hailing companies and food delivery companies, continue to suffer weak profitability even though they promise a more efficient way to mobilize and utilize the platform’s labor force. Stylized facts on the profitability of the top ten global labor platforms and a descriptive analysis of the…
Beyond state and market: The role of labor regimes and class dynamics in the East Asian miracle
While conventional wisdom focuses on the roles of the state and the market in achieving high growth in East Asian countries, this paper offers an account focused on class dynamics. First, the paper connects post-World War II class dynamics in Japan and South Korea to the distributional outcome, i.e., the gap between labor productivity growth and real wage growth. Statistical evidence and econometric tests suggest a positive relationship between a…
Control of the Platform Reserve Army: The Roles of the State and Capital in China's Platform Economy
The rise of digital platforms has formed a platform reserve army. The platform reserve army is the stagnant reserve army of contemporary digital capitalism, which brings challenges to labor control. Using data collected from an original survey of over 600 ride-hailing drivers in two Chinese cities, the roles of the state and capital, as well as their interactions in shaping capital's control over the platform reserve army in China, are clarified.…
Riding out the Storm: How State-Owned Enterprises in China Fought the Covid Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economic and social activities worldwide, exposing and exacerbating inherent flaws in the capitalist system. The pandemic’s devastating impact highlights the need for the state and its institutional agencies to actively intervene in public health crises and mitigate the economic damage they cause. This article situates the effectiveness and contribution of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the context of the COVID …
Cross-Boundary Subsumption: Toward a Political Economy of Platform Labor
The existing body of research on the platform economy provides a variety of interpretations of platform labor. Nevertheless, current studies have either placed exchange rather than production at the core of their interpretations or overlooked the historical continuity of the type of labor to which platform labor belongs. Employing a historical-comparative approach, this article introduces the concept of “cross-boundary subsumption” to illuminate …
Economics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · China (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic system (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)