Publications

Angerer, Antonie, Ryanne Flock, Michael Malzer, and Elena Meyer-Clement (eds.). Familie – Leben – Pandemie. Worte und Welten chinesischer Wanderarbeiterinnen: Ein Projekt von Jing Y. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2023.

Flock, Ryanne, and Elena Meyer-Clement. “From The Oriental to the Global City: China’s Urban Rise.” In Routledge Handbook on Global China, edited by Emilian Kavalski, Xin Zhang, Maximilian Mayer, and Marina Rudyak, 1st ed., Routledge, 2025: 182–93. doi:10.4324/9781003044710-15.

Guo, Pengpeng, René Trappel, and Guoming Han. “The Political Opportunity Structure of Chinese Villages: A Case Study of Rightful Resistance in Northwest China.” Asian Perspective 45, no. 3 (2021): 645–70. doi:10.1353/apr.2021.0030.

Kan, Karita, and René Trappel. “Negotiating Agrarian Futures in China: Capital, Collectives, and Communities.” China Perspectives, no. 2 (125) (2021): 3–8.

Meyer-Clement, Elena. “Was ist neu an Chinas Programm für ‘neuartige Urbanisierung’?,” Background Paper of “Governance in China” Research Network, no. 1 (2015). (PDF)

Meyer-Clement, Elena. “城镇化的大跃进?关于中国农村城镇化中的地方政治经济 (The Great Urban Leap? On the local political economy of rural urbanization in China).” In 中共的治理与适 (Governance and Adaptation of the Chinese Communist Party: Comparative Perspectives), edited by Yu Keping, Björn Alpermannn and Thomas Heberer, 182-213. Beijing: 中央编译出版社 (Central Compilation and Translation Press), 2015.

Meyer-Clement, Elena. “The Great Urban Leap? On the local political economy of rural urbanisation in China”, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 45, no. 1 (2016): 109-139. (PDF)

Meyer-Clement, Elena. “Revitalising China’s countryside – old wine in new bottles?” Rural 21. 4 (2018): 32-33.

Meyer-Clement, Elena. “Rural Urbanization under Xi Jinping: From Rapid Community Building to Steady Urbanization?” China Information 34, no. 2 (2020): 187–207. doi:10.1177/0920203X19875931.

Meyer-Clement, Elena. “The Politics of Urbanizing the Chinese Countryside.” In Urban-Rural Assembly: A Handbook for Co-Visioning Interconnected Regions, edited by Anke Hagemann, et al. Jovis, 2024: 82-89.

Meyer-Clement, Elena, and Xiang Wang. “Global City Competition and New Hierarchies of Urban Citizenship in China’s Migration Regime.” In Immigration Governance in East Asia, 1st ed., Routledge, 2021: 67–90. doi:10.4324/9781003099543-5.

Meyer-Clement, Elena, and Jesper Willaing Zeuthen. “China’s Rural Urbanization and the State: Putting the Countryside First?” China Information 34, no. 2 (2020): 161–67. doi:10.1177/0920203X20923240.

Thürmer, Amelie, and Elena Meyer-Clement. “Global City Agency and Multilevel Governance in China.” Global Governance 28, no. 1 (2022): 80–102. doi:10.1163/19426720-02801006.

Trappel, René. ” ‘In Accordance with Local Conditions’: Policy Design and Implementation of Agrarian Change Policies in Rural China.” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 45, no. 1 (2016): 141-168.

Trappel, René. China’s Agrarian Transition: Peasants, Property, and Politics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016.

Trappel, René. “From Peasant to Elite: Reshaping Agriculture in Gansu Province.” China Perspectives 2021, no. 2 (125) (2021): 9–18. doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.11610.

Wang, Xiang. “Permits, Points, and Permanent Household Registration: Recalibrating Hukou Policy under ‘Top-Level Design.’” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 49, no. 3 (2020): 269–90. doi:10.1177/1868102619894739.

Zhao, Tiantian, René Trappel, and Guoming Han. “Maybe Listening to the Elite? Selective Deliberation as a Governance Tool in Rural China.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint 65, no. 1 (2024): 2–13. doi:10.1111/apv.12400.