After years of doubt, drafts, and disbelief, my first—and likely last—book is finally out. It’s about how entertainment media shapes American politics. If you preorder (a.co/d/ctGUWkZ), I’d love to send a small token of thanks: forms.gle/1YrkYX2t2nPCTg…

🎙️new episode dropped!🎙️ in this recording of an in-person event in Shanghai, Yao Lin 林垚 talked to Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social about her highly acclaimed new book From Click to Boom Princeton University Press buzzsprout.com/1171871/episod…

Now officially out in the latest issue of AJPS! Check out our piece on China's strategic use of import refusals. Sung Eun Kim Grace Zeng

Drops today: this week's ARB New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social, author of “From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China” asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-l…

New paper➡️“Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China.”Elizabeth Plantan and I reveal how China’s Party-State controls research and how that affected the landscape of social science scholarship since 1985. Research is disappearing. 1/7 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

China makes up around 50% of the global e-commerce market. It’s no surprise that many global trends in e-commerce are coming out of China. Astounding chart from Tej Parikh’s latest FT piece. 1/

Tej Parikh For anyone interested in China’s e-commerce, I highly recommend Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social’s book:

Thanks a lot, Steven, for the review! I also look forward to reading your work on China's tech sector and innovation.

Excited to share our new AJPS paper! We analyze 5M+ Douyin videos from 18K+ regime-affiliated accounts and show how propaganda is now produced and spread through a decentralized model on social media. Four years of work with an incredible team: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

Many thx Economics Observatory! In this piece, I try to elaborate that China’s semiconductor industry faces a continuous tension between self-sufficiency and global integration; it engages in open innovation where possible, but pivots to security-driven self-reliance when necessary.

A downside of China’s promotion tournament is local protectionism, as reflected in the local governments’ allocation of procurement contracts and equity investments. Just in Print at Journal of Public Economics, with Ming Li (CUhK Shenzhen) and Zenan Wu (Peking University).

Chinese foreign aid isn’t just “throwing money around.” It’s economic diplomacy in action—strategically advancing China’s commercial interests. Our research shows it significantly boosts Chinese exports to recipient countries.

Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Exciting personal news: I've just signed a book contract with Princeton University Press. My book will be about China's industrial policy, from EVs and batteries to AI and robotics. It's aimed at both general readers and researchers, in the style of my High Capacity newsletter.

China’s meteoric rise in e-commerce presents a paradox, a state with weak formal institutions oversaw a booming digital arena. Lizhi’s book explores the maze, showing how China charted the digitalisation by outsourcing diverse institutionalisation to tech market forces.Lizhi Liu @lizhiliu.bsky.social

I’m excited to share my new Perspectives on Politics article, “Bringing the Sector Back In and the New Political Economy.” The new research agenda introduces the “contextualized comparative sector approach” to study the multidimensionality of sectors in the NPE. doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University – The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China - AAC&U - ... a big deal in China. Lizhu Liu, associate professor, discusses why. Lizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough ... - ift.tt/CKD1Zpk

At its heart, Chinese education is an exam system. But what makes it distinctive? Our book blends research with personal experience -- and, best of all, it is short!

My latest column World Politics Review examines the bombshell Supreme Court decision to disallow opting out of China's social insurance program. Policy wonk heaven but also important for debates in China about inequality and redistribution. Big story in China. 1/7 worldpoliticsreview.com/china-economy-…

The Party’s Interests Come 50% off! From now through September 8, you can get my biography of Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, for only $25 on the Stanford University Press website. sup.org/books/history/…