Ben Hillman
Associate Professor
Director, Australian Centre on China in the World
Qualifications
PhD in Politics and International Relations (ANU) BA Hons. Asian and International Studies (Griffith) BA Political Science and Asian Studies (Murdoch)
Books
Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule (with Chien-wen Kou). ANU Press (2024)
China’s New Era (with Annie Ren). ANU Press (2024)
China Dreams (with Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin and Sharon Strange eds.) Canberra: ANU Press 2020.
Shangrila Inside Out (in Chinese) Kunming: Yunnan People’s Publishing House (2017)
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West
(with Gray Tuttle. eds.) Columbia University Press (2016)Patronage and Power: Local State Networks and Party-state Resilience in Rural China (Stanford University Press, 2014)
Governance and Capacity Building in Post-Crisis Aceh
(with Peter McCawley and Edward Aspinall) Jakarta: UNDP (2012)Rural Governance, Village Democracy and Natural Resource Management (in Chinese) (with He Jun and Xu Jianchu eds.) Beijing: China Agricultural University Press (2007)
Recent articles and chapters
‘Revolutionary-style campaigns and social control in the PRC: The campaign to sweep away black and eliminate evil’ in Ben Hillman and Chien-wen Kou (eds.) Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule ANU Press 2024
‘From soft to hard authoritarianism: the consolidation of one-party rule in China’ in Ben Hillman and Chien-wen Kou (eds.) Political and Social Control in China: The Consolidation of Single-Party Rule ANU Press 2024
‘The End of Village Democracy in China.’ Journal of Democracy 34 (3) 62-76 (July) 2023.
‘Ghosts of Mao and Deng’ China Story Yearbook ANU Press 2023
‘Law, Order and Social Control in Xi’s China.’ Issues and Studies 57 (2) July, 2021.
‘Tibet: From Conflict to Protest.’ In Michael Weiner (ed.) Race and Ethnicity in Asia. London: Routledge (2021)
‘Urbanizing Tibet: differential inclusion and colonial governance in the People’s Republic of China.’ with G Roche and J Leibold. Territory, Politcs, Governance. December 2020.
‘Quotas and Ballots: The Impact of Positive Action Policies on Women’s Representation in Indonesia.’ Asia and Pacific Policy Studies 7 (2) 158-170. March 2020.
‘Xi Jinping’s War on Black and Evil’ in Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Ben Hillman and Sharon Strange eds. China Dreams: China Story Yearbook 2019 Canberra: ANU Press 2020.
‘Dreaming the Tibetan City’ (with James Leibold and Gerald Roche) in Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin, Ben Hillman and Sharon Strange eds. China Dreams: China Story Yearbook 2019. Canberra: ANU Press 2020.
‘Tibetans in China: From Conflict to Protest’ in Michael Weiner (ed.) Race and Ethnicity in Asia. London: Routledge. Forthcoming 2021.
Other select articles and book chapters
‘The State Advances, The Private Sector Retreats.’ in Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin and Paul Farrelly (eds.) Power: China Story Yearbook Canberra: ANU Press. 2019.
‘From Ceasefire to Dialogue: The Problem of “All-Inclusiveness in Myanmar’s Stalled Peace Process’ (with Lwin Cho Latt, Marlar Aung and Khin Sanda Myint) In Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win (eds) Myanmar Transformed. Singapore: ISEAS Press 2018.
‘The Politics of Tibetan Identity in the People’s Republic of China.’ In Weiping Wu and Mark Frazier (eds) The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China. London: Sage Publications 2018.
‘Women’s Parliamentary Representation in Indonesia: The Limits of Legislative Quotas.’ Journal of Contemporary Asia. March 2018.
‘Increasing Women’s Parliamentary Representation in Asia and the Pacific: The Indonesian Experience.’ Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies 4 (1) January 2017. 38-49.’
‘Understanding the Current Wave of Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang’ in Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (eds.) Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West. Columbia University Press. 2016.
‘Unrest in Tibet and the Limits of Regional Autonomy’ in Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (eds.) Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West. Columbia University Press. 2016.
‘Unrest in Tibet: Interpreting the Post-2008 Wave of Protest and Conflict’ Far East [Dalny Vychod], Vol. 4, No. 1, 2014. pp. 50-60.
‘The Urbanisation of Rural China - Introduction to the Special Issue’ (co-edited with Jon Unger) China Perspectives, Issue 3, September 2013.
‘The Causes and Consequences of Rapid Urbanisation in an Ethnically Diverse Region’** China Perspectives, Issue 3, September 2013, pp 25-32.
Causes et conséquences d’une urbanisation rapid dans une région ethniquement variée’ China Perspectives, Issue 3, September 2013, pp 25-32.
‘Public Administration Reform in Post-Conflict Societies: Lessons from Aceh, Indonesia’, Public Administration and Development, 33 (1) February 2013, pp 1-14.
‘Ethnic Politics and Local Political Parties in Indonesia’, Asian Ethnicity, No 4, 2012.
‘Power Sharing and Political Party Engineering in Conflict-Prone Societies: The Indonesian Experiment in Aceh’, Conflict Security and Development 12 (2) May 2012.
‘The Policymaking Dimension of Post-Conflict Governance: the Experience of Aceh, Indonesia’, Conflict, Security and Development, 11 (5), November 2011,p 533-553.
‘Electoral Governance and Democratic Consolidation in Indonesia’, Indonesia Quarterly, No. 3, September 2011, pp 301-323.
‘Factions and Spoils: Examining Local State Behaviour in China’, The China Journal, Vol 62, July 2010, pp1-18
‘China’s Many Tibets’, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 2010, pp 269-277
‘Macho Minority: Masculinity and Ethnicity on the Edge of Tibet’, (with Lee-Anne Henfry) Modern China, April 2006 (32) 251-272
‘Monasticism and the Local State: Autonomy and Authority in a Tibetan Prefecture’, The China Journal, No. 54, July 2005, 22-52
‘The Rise of the Community in Rural China: Village Politics, Cultural Identity and Religious Revival in a Hui Hamlet’’, The China Journal, No. 51, January 2004, 53-73
‘Paradise Under Construction: Minorities, Myths and Modernity in Northwest Yunnan’, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2003, 177-190
‘Chinese Nationalism and the Belgrade Embassy Bombing’, in Leong H. Liew and Wang Shaoguang (ed.) Chinese Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003) 65-84
Other publications and seminar papers
‘The State Advances, The Private Sector Retreats’ in Jane Golley, Linda Jaivin and Paul Farrelly (eds.) Power: China Story Yearbook Canberra: ANU Press. 2019
‘China’s Dangerous Ethnic Policies in Xinjiang’ East Asia Forum. June 12, 2017.
‘Why are so many Tibetans moving to Chinese cities?’ China File. June 26, 2017.
‘Silk Road blocks: the problem with China’s “One Belt One Road” policy’ Policy Forum. November 3, 2015.
‘New Hope for Indonesia’s Religious Minorities” (with Ihsan Ali-Fauzi) East Asia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 1 January-March 2015.
‘Shangrila: Rebuilding a Myth’, The China Story Journal, November 2015.
‘China’s ethnic policies short on evidence, East Asia Forum, 16 June 2014
‘A Nomad’s Life’, The China Story Journal, May 2013.
‘Women in Indonesia’s Parliament: Towards 2019’ #, Policy Study.
‘From Rebels to Politicians: the transformation of former combatants in Aceh, Indonesia’, Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, 30 March 2010
‘Political Parties in Post-Conflict Transitions: Lessons from Aceh, Indonesia’, Columbia University, 31 March 2010
‘Local Government in China’, American Asian Studies Association annual convention, Philadelphia, 27 March 2010
‘Ethnic Tourism and Ethnic Politics in Tibetan China (PDF,1.53MB)’, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Spring, 2009, pp 1-6.
‘China’s Tibet Policy and the 2008 Street Protests’, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2008.
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