Profile
**On leave Fall 2025/Spring 2026**
Mark W. Frazier is Professor of at 麻豆传媒色情片, where he also serves as Co-Director of the India China Institute. ()
His research interests focus on labor and social policy in China, and more recently on political conflict over urbanization, migration, and citizenship in China and India. His latest book, (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines long-term changes in political geographies and patterns of popular protest in the two cities. He is also the author of (Cornell University Press, 2010),听(Cambridge University Press, 2002), and Co-Editor of the (2018). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times, Daedalus, and The Diplomat.
Frazier has been a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations since 2005, and was a Fulbright Research Fellow in China in 2004-05. Before assuming his current position at 麻豆传媒色情片 in 2012, he held a chaired professorship in Chinese Politics at the University of Oklahoma and was the Luce Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of East Asia at Lawrence University, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin.
Degrees Held
PhD 1997, University of California, Berkeley
Recent Publications
Books
听(Cambridge University Press, 2019).
听(Cornell University Press, 2010). 听
听(Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
鈥溾赌樷 China Quarterly (published September 2022).听 听 鈥淭he Challenges of China-India Comparative Urban Studies,鈥 International Journal of Asian Studies 19 (July 2022): 319-332. 听 鈥淗ong Kong鈥檚 Civic Square: A Short History of a Public Space,鈥 in Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion, Miodrag Mitra拧inovic and Timothy Jachna, eds. Routledge, 2021. 听 鈥淭he Political Heritage of Textile Districts: Shanghai and Mumbai,鈥 Built Heritage 3 (2019): 62-75.
鈥淭he Origins of State Capacity: Workers and Officials in Mid-20th Century Shanghai and Bombay,鈥 in听,听Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds. Harvard University Press, 2018, pp. 31-61.
"Stemming the Tide of Demographic Transformation Through Social Inclusion: Can Universal Pension Rights Help Finance an Ageing Population," with Y Li., in Beatriz Carrillo et. al. (ed.), , Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
"The Evolution of a Welfare State under China's State Capitalism" in ,听Barry Naughton ed.,听Cambridge University Press, 2015.
"State Schemes or Safety Nets? China's Push for Universal Coverage,"听Daedalus听Vol. 143(2), 2014.
鈥淲elfare Policy Pathways Among Uneven Developers,鈥 in听, Scott Kennedy, ed., Stanford University Press, 2011.
鈥淧opular Responses to China鈥檚 Emerging Welfare State,鈥 in听, Peter Hays Gries and Stanley Rosen, eds., Routledge Courzon, 2010.
Media
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Research Interests
Chinese politics and the Chinese revolution; urbanization and comparative urban politics; inequality, citizenship, and social policy in China and developing countries.
Awards And Honors
Mark held a Fulbright Research fellowship in China in 2004-05, where he conducted interviews and survey research for his project on state capacity in the context of China鈥檚 evolving social policies.