Julia C. Strauss, Ph.D.

University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Julia C. Strauss is a professor in the Department of Political and International Studies at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was also the Editor of _The China Quarterly_ from 2002 to 2011. Her research interests span both sides of the Taiwan Straits and are focused on state building and institution building, governance, the environment, and China-Africa relations. Her publications include the edited volumes China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development (_CUP_ 2009), The History of the People’s Republic of China. (_CUP_, 2006) Julia Strauss has written two books _[Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940](https://smile.amazon.com/State-Formation-China-Taiwan-Bureaucracy/dp/1108701655/)_ (Clarendon, 1998) and _[State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance](https://smile.amazon.com/State-Formation-China-Taiwan-Bureaucracy/dp/1108701655/)_. (Cambridge University Press, 2019) Articles include “Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in fin de siècle China” (_Journal of Asian Studies_, 68:4), and “Paternalist Terror: The Campaign to Suppress Counter revolutionaries and Regime Consolidation in the People’s Republic of China, 1950-53” (_Comparative Studies in Society and History_). [](https://smile.amazon.com/State-Formation-China-Taiwan-Bureaucracy/dp/1108701655/) [](https://smile.amazon.com/Strong-Institutions-Weak-Polities-Contemporary/dp/0198233426/)