Academic Publications

Books

1.  Abu-Laban, Y., Frishkopf, M., Hasmath, R. and Kirova, A., eds. (2024) Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press. [ISBN: 9781771994101]

2.  Gustafsson, B., Hasmath, R. and Ding, S., eds. (2021) Ethnicity and Inequality in China. New York and Oxford: Routledge. [ISBN: 9780367497033 (hardback); 9780367534868 (paperback)]

3.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J., eds. (2016) NGO Governance and Management in China. New York and Oxford: Routledge. [ISBN: 9781138909977 (hardback); 9780815383963 (paperback)]

4.  Hasmath, R., ed. (2015) Inclusive Growth, Development and Welfare Policy: A Critical Assessment. New York and Oxford: Routledge. [ISBN: 9781138840799]

5.  Hsu, J. and Hasmath, R., eds. (2013) The Chinese Corporatist State: Adaptation, Survival and Resistance. New York and Oxford: Routledge. [ISBN: 9780415640725 (hardback); 9781138851870 (paperback)]

6.  Hasmath, R. (2012) The Ethnic Penalty: Immigration, Education and the Labour Market. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge). [ISBN: 9781409402114 (hardback); 9781138260641 (paperback)]

7.  Hasmath, R., ed. (2011) Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective. Burlington, VT and Surrey, UK: Ashgate (Routledge). [ISBN: 9781409411215]

8.  Hasmath, R. (2010) A Comparative Study of Minority Development in China and Canada. New York and Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 9780230100381]

9.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J., eds. (2009) China in an Era of Transition: Understanding Contemporary State and Society Actors. New York and Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 9780230613508]

Book Chapters

1.  Eggli, M. and Hasmath, R. (2024) “Thought Reform, Re-education and the Politics of Language and Discourse in China", pp. 6-23 in U. Berzina-Cerenkova (ed.), Discourse, Rhetoric and Shifting Political Behaviour in China. New York and Oxford: Routledge.

2.  Hasmath, R. and Teets, J. (2023) “Cadres and Local Policy Experimentation”, pp. 98-111 in C. Ergenc and D. Goodman (eds.) Handbook on Local Governance in China: Structures, Variations, and Innovations. Northampton, MA and Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

3.  Hasmath, R. (2023) “Convergence and Divergence in Policy Topics Among Think Tanks in China”, pp. 87-108 in M. Gromping and J. Teets (eds.) Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Non-Democracies. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

4.  Teets, J. and Hasmath, R. (2021) “Policy Experimentation and Opportunities for Policy Entrepreneurship”, pp. 34-44 in M. Mintrom, D. Maurya and A. He (eds.) Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective.  New York and Oxford: Routledge.

5.  Hsu, J. and Hasmath, R. (2017) “Chinese NGOs as Welfare Providers: Challenges and Constraints”, pp. 299-316 in B. Carrillo, J. Hood and P. Kadetz (eds.) Handbook of Welfare in China. Northampton, MA and Cheltenham, UK: Edwards Elgar.

6.  Hasmath, R. and MacDonald, A. (2017) “The Social Welfare of Ethnic Minorities: Rationale, Impact and Outcomes”, pp. 185-200 in B. Carrillo, J. Hood and P. Kadetz (eds.) Handbook of Welfare in China. Northampton, MA and Cheltenham, UK: Edwards Elgar.

7.  Hasmath, R. (2016) “Ethnic Minority Status, Class, and the Urban Labour Market”, pp. 142-158 in Y. Guo (ed.) Handbook of Class and Social Stratification in China. Northampton, MA and Cheltenham, UK: Edwards Elgar.

8.  Hasmath, R. (2014) “The Ethnic Minority Experience in the Urban Labour Market”, pp. 155-167 in Z. Cheng, M. Wang and J. Chen (eds.) China's Urban Workers in the New Era: Market Reform, Current State and the Road Forward. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

9.  Hasmath, R. (2011) “Managing China’s Muslim Minorities: Migration, Labour and the Rise of Ethno-Religious Consciousness Among Uyghurs in Urban Xinjiang”, pp. 121-137 in J. Barbalet, A. Possamai and B. Turner (eds.) Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology. New York and London: Anthem Press.

10.  Hasmath, R. (2010) “Shangri-la has Forsaken Us: China's Ethnic Minorities, Identity, and Government Repression”, pp. 441-458 in J. Adekunle and H. Williams (eds.) Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

11.  Hasmath, R. (2009) “Dealing with Urban Ethnic Differences: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Canadian Strategies”, pp. 93-108 in H. Cao (ed.) Ethnic Minorities and Regional Development in Asia: Reality and Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

12.  Hasmath, R. (2007) “Canadian Multiculturalism: A Sociological and Human Development Perspective”, pp. 43-48 in D. McMurray and T. Mori (eds.) Canada Project in Kyushu Symposia, Volume 2. Kagoshima: Institute for Regional Studies, International University of Kagoshima.

Special Issues

1.  Maurer-Fazio, M. and Hasmath, R., eds. (2015) “The Contemporary Ethnic Minority in China”, Eurasian Geography and Economics 56(1).

Journal Articles

1. Hasmath, R. (2024) “The Operations of Contemporary Han Chinese Privilege”, China Information 38(1): 3-23.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

2. Hasmath, R. (2023) “Citizens’ Support for Economic Governance Approaches in Contemporary China”, Global Public Policy and Governance 3: 249-267.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

3.  Hasmath, R. and Wyzycka, N. (2023) “What Drives the European Union’s Contemporary Strategic Engagement with China?”, China: An International Journal 21(3): 1-19.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

4.  Hasmath, R. (2023) “Discourse, Deliberation and Difference in an Authoritarian Public Sphere”, Journal of Deliberative Democracy 19(1): 1-10.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

5.  Hsu, C., Teets, J., Hasmath, R., Hsu, J. and Hildebrandt, T. (2022) “The Construction and Performance of Citizenship in Contemporary China”, Journal of Contemporary China 31(138): 827-843.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

6.  Hasmath, R., Hildebrandt, T., Teets, J., Hsu, J. and Hsu, C. (2022) “Citizens’ Expectations for Crisis Management and the Involvement of Civil Society Organizations in China”, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 51(2): 292-312.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

7.  Hasmath, R. (2022) “Future Responses to Managing Muslim Ethnic Minorities in China: Lessons Learned from Global Approaches to Improving Inter-Ethnic Relations”, International Journal 77(1): 51-67.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

8.  Teets, J., Hasmath, R., Hildebrandt, T., Hsu, C. and Hsu, J. (2022) “Volunteerism and Democratic Learning in an Authoritarian State: The Case of China”, Democratization 29(5): 879-898.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

9.  Hasmath, R. and Berzina-Cerenkova, U. (2022) “Cyber Technology and the European Union’s Gestaltian Approach to China”, Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations 2:10 (online); 57: 111-120 (paper).  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

10.  Lewis, O., Teets, J. and Hasmath, R. (2022) “Exploring Political Personalities: The Micro-Foundation of Local Policy Innovation in China”, Governance 35(1): 103-122.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

11.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J. (2021) “Rethinking Global Civil Society in an Era of a Rising China”, The China Review 21(3): 221-246.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

12.  Eaton, S. and Hasmath, R. (2021) “Economic Legitimation in a New Era: Public Attitudes About State Ownership and Market Regulation”, The China Quarterly 246: 447-472.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

13.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J. (2020) “A Community of Practice for Chinese NGOs”, Journal of Chinese Political Science 25(4): 575-589.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

14.  Hasmath, R. (2020) “The Century of Chinese Corporatism”, American Affairs 4(1): 194-206.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

15.  Teets, J. and Hasmath, R. (2020) “The Evolution of Policy Experimentation in China”, Journal of Asian Public Policy 13(1): 49-59.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

16.  MacDonald, A. and Hasmath, R. (2019) “Outsider Ethnic Minorities and Wage Determination in China”, International Labour Review 158(3): 489-508.

17.  Hasmath, R., Teets, J. and Lewis, O. (2019) “The Innovative Personality? Policymaking and Experimentation in an Authoritarian Bureaucracy”, Public Administration and Development 39(3): 154-162[audio paper:  video and podcast]

18.  Hasmath, R., Hildebrandt, T. and Hsu, J. (2019) “Conceptualizing Government-Organized Non-Governmental Organizations”, Journal of Civil Society 15(3): 267-284.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

19.  Cherng, S., Hasmath, R. and Ho, B. (2019) “Holding Up Half the Sky? Ethno-Gender Labour Market Outcomes in China”, Journal of Contemporary China 28(117): 415-433.

20.  Hasmath, R. (2019) “What Explains the Rise of Majority-Minority Tensions and Conflict in Xinjiang?”, Central Asian Survey 38(1): 46-60.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

21.  Hasmath, R. and MacDonald, A. (2018) “Beyond Special Privileges: The Discretionary Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in China’s Welfare System”, Journal of Social Policy 47(2): 295-316.

22.  Yates, M. and Hasmath, R. (2017) “When a Joke is More than a Joke: Humor as a Form of Networked Practice in the Chinese Cyber Public Sphere”, Journal of Chinese Sociology 4:17.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

23.  Teets, J., Hasmath, R. and Lewis, O. (2017) “The Incentive to Innovate? The Behavior of Policymakers in China”, Journal of Chinese Political Science 22(4): 505-517[audio paper:  video and podcast]

24.  Wyzycka, N. and Hasmath, R. (2017) “The Impact of the European Union’s Policy Towards China’s Intellectual Property Regime”, International Political Science Review 38(5): 549-562.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

25.  Hsu, J., Hsu, C. and Hasmath, R. (2017) “NGO Strategies in an Authoritarian Context, and their Implications for Citizenship: The Case of the People’s Republic of China”, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 28(3): 1157-1179[audio paper:  video and podcast]

26.  Hasmath, R. (2017) “White Cat, Black Cat or Good Cat? The Beijing Consensus as an Alternative Philosophy for Policy Deliberation”, China’s World 2(1): 12-24.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

27.  Hsu, J. and Hasmath, R. (2017) “A Maturing Civil Society in China? The Role of Knowledge and Professionalization in the Development of NGOs”, China Information 31(1): 22-42[audio paper:  video and podcast]

28.  Hsu, J., Hildebrandt, T. and Hasmath, R. (2016) “‘Going Out’ or Staying In? The Expansion of Chinese NGOs in Africa”, Development Policy Review 34(3): 423-439.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

29.  Tam, J. and Hasmath, R. (2015) “Navigating Uncertainty: The Survival Strategies of Religious NGOs in China, Journal of Civil Society 11(3): 283-299[audio paper:  video and podcast]

30.  Hasmath, R. and Ho, B. (2015) “Job Acquisition, Retention and Outcomes for Ethnic Minorities in Urban China”, Eurasian Geography and Economics 56(1): 24-43.

31.  Maurer-Fazio, M. and Hasmath, R. (2015) “The Contemporary Ethnic Minority in China: An Introduction”, Eurasian Geography and Economics 56(1): 1-7.

32.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J. (2014) “Isomorphic Pressures, Epistemic Communities and State-NGO Interactions”, The China Quarterly 220: 936-954.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

33.  Cook, J. and Hasmath, R. (2014) “The Discursive Construction and Performance of Gendered Identity on Social Media”, Current Sociology 62(7): 975-993.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

34.  Hsu, J. and Hasmath, R. (2014) “The Local Corporatist State and NGO Relations in China”, Journal of Contemporary China 23(87): 516-534.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

35.  McKenzie, J. and Hasmath, R. (2013) “Deterring the ‘Boat People’: Explaining the Australian Government's People Swap Response to Asylum Seekers”, Australian Journal of Political Science 48(4): 417-430.  [audio paper:  video and podcast]

36.  Hasmath, R. (2011) “The Education of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 34(11): 1835-1854.

37.  Hasmath, R. (2011) “From Job Search to Hiring to Promotion: The Labour Market Experiences of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing”, International Labour Review 150(1/2): 189-201.

38.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J. (2008) “NGOs in China: Issues of Good Governance and Accountability”, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 30(1): 1-11[audio paper:  video and podcast]

39.  Hasmath, R. (2008) “The Big Payoff? Educational and Occupational Attainments of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing”, European Journal of Development Research 20(1): 104-116.

40.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J. (2007) “Social Development in the Tibet Autonomous Region: A Contemporary and Historical Analysis”, International Journal of Development Issues 6(2): 125-141[audio paper:  video and podcast]

41.  Hasmath, R. (2007) “The Paradox of Ethnic Minority Development in Beijing”, Comparative Sociology 6(4): 464-480.

42.  Hasmath, R. and Hsu, J. (2007) “Big Business, NGOs and Labor Standards in Developing Nations: A Critical Reflection”, Asian Journal of Social Policy 3(1): 1-15[audio paper:  video and podcast]

Working Papers

1.  Hasmath, R., Hildebrandt, T., Hsu, C., Hsu, J. and Teets, J. (2024) “The Civic Participation in China Survey: Key Trends in Philanthropic and Voluntary Activities”, Working Paper.

2Hildebrandt, T., Hasmath, R., Hsu, J., Teets, J. and Hsu, C. (2024) “What Makes a ‘Bad Citizen’? Understanding Non-Participation in Philanthropic and Voluntaristic Activities in China”, Paper Presented at International Society for Third Sector Research International Conference (Antwerp, Belgium), July 16-19.

3.  Hsu, J., Hsu, C., Hasmath, R., Hildebrandt, T. and Teets, J. (2023) “Creating a Culture of Philanthropy and Volunteerism in Contemporary China”, Paper Presented at Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting (Boston, USA), March 16-19.

4.  Hasmath, R. and Wei, Q. (2022) Getting Rich But Not Giving? Exploring the Mechanisms Impeding Charitable Giving in China”, Paper Presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada), September 15-18.

5.  Hasmath, R. (2021) “What Salience Does White Privilege Have in Non-Diverse Societies?”, Paper Presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 6-10.

6.  MacDonald, A. and Hasmath, R. (2020) “How Citizens Order Their Political Mind: Contemporary Ideology in China”, Paper Presented at Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico), January 9-11.

7.  MacDonald, A. and Hasmath, R. (2018) “Does Ideology Matter for the Citizenry in China? Public Attitudes and Preferences for Economic Policies”, Paper Presented at Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference (Chicago, USA), April 5-8.

8.  Hasmath, R. (2014) “The Interactions of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing”, University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy and Society Working Paper 14-111: 1-26.

9.  Hasmath, R. (2012) “The Utility of Regional Peremptory Norms in International Affairs”, Paper Presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (New Orleans, USA), August 30-September 2.

Book Reviews

1.  Hasmath, R. (2021) Review of J. Ci's Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis, Journal of Asian Studies 80(3): 708-710.

2.  Hasmath, R. (2021) Review of T. Grose's Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity, The China Journal 86: 136-138.

3.  Hasmath, R. (2014) Review of J. Midgley's Social Development: Theory and Practice, Journal of Development Studies 50(9): 1321-1323.

4.  Hasmath, R. (2009) Review of E. Jenne’s Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 15(1): 136-137.

5.  Hasmath, R. (2008) Review of F. Shanti’s Race and the City: Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization, Canadian Ethnic Studies 41(1): 206-207. 

6.  Hasmath, R. (2007) Review of M. Rossabi’s Governing China’s Multiethnic Frontiers, Progress in Development Studies 7(4): 372-373.

7.  Hasmath, R. (2007) Review of D. Brown and A. MacBean’s (eds.) Challenges for China’s Development: An Enterprise Perspective, Political Studies Review 5(2): 285.

Other

1.  Hasmath, R. (2012) Entry on “Islam in China”, in A. Stanton, E. Ramsamy, P. Seybolt and C. Elliott (eds.) Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia and Africa Encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2.  Hasmath, R. (2010) Entry on “Discrimination”, in S. Caliendo and C. McIlwain (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity. New York and Oxford: Routledge.