David S. G. Goodman
David Stephen Gordon Goodman is Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he is also Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations. He is also Emeritus Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China; and Emeritus Professor in the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney. Prof Goodman is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Biography and academic career
Goodman was born in Watford, England. He was educated at the University of Manchester and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He also studied economics at Peking University. Goodman's university teaching since 1971 has focused on Chinese society, politics, history, and literature.From 2017 to 2021 Goodman was Vice President Academic Affairs at Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, in Suzhou, where he was previously Professor and Head of the Department of China Studies, and Head of Humanities and Social Sciences. He served in the past as Acting Director and Academic Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at University of Sydney, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President of the University of Technology, Sydney, Director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Director of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, and Director of the East Asia Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
In 2000 he was elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in the discipline of political science. In 2001 he received the IDP Education Australia Award as International Educator of the Year. He received a DLitt from the University of Technology, Sydney in 2008 for his research on Provincial China. During 2012-2016 he was a PRC Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Academic and Professor of Social History in the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Nanjing University. Prof Goodman was recognized by the PRC Jiangsu Provincial Government with a Friendship Award in 2014; and by the PRC Suzhou City Government as a Friend of Suzhou in 2019.
Works
Goodman's research has focused on centre-local relations and regional development in the People's Republic of China; the political history of the Chinese Communist Party; and, more recently, on social and political change at local levels in China, most especially configurations of class, and the sociology of entrepreneurship in contemporary China. His research emphasises the historical continuities in Chinese economy and society from the 20th century to the 21st. He is the author or editor of more than four dozen books and monographs on Chinese politics and society and more than 100 academic journal articles and a similar number of academic book chapters.Since the late 1980s Goodman has been active in promoting a provincial approach to understanding China, both in his own work and in workshops organised by him around that theme. Through these activities Goodman has had a major influence on the development of China studies, prompting China scholars to address the implications of the wide variation in social and economic development across the country. The academic journal Provincial China arose out of the workshops he held across China beginning in 1995 on the theme of "Reform in Provincial China."
In his research on the 'new rich' in China, Goodman's view is that local elites and power relations are strongly shaped by family ties embedded in specific localities, resulting in a wide variety of models of what it means to be middle class in different places across China. Goodman has also been involved in social-historical research into the strategies pursued by the CCP in the northern base areas of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937–1945. His current research examines the development of local social governance, particularly under the broad policy goal of achieving 'Common Prosperity' in China.
Books
Books written
Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021: Reform and Market Socialism Abingdon UK: Routledge, 2022. Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-1978: Revolution and Social Change Abingdon UK: Routledge, 2021. Class in Contemporary China Wiley, New York, 2014. 272 pp.Shanxi in Reform: Everyday Life in a North China Province Dangdai Zhongguo chubanshe, Beijing. 2000. 103 pp. Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945 Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2000. 345 pp.- * University of Western Australia Press, 1995. 96 pp.Deng Xiaoping Cardinal, London, 1990. 172 pp.China without Deng HarperCollins, Sydney & New York, 1995. 106 pp. Translated into Chinese as Denghou jushi dayuce Shibao chuban, Taipei, 1997, 141 pp. Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: a political biography Routledge, London, 1994. 209 pp. Reprinted 1996.
- * Revised edition in Chinese as Deng Xiaoping zhengzhi pingzhuan Zhonggong zhongyang dangxiao chubanshe, 1995. 230 pp. Reprinted 1996. Original translated into Chinese as Zhongguo zuihou qiangren – Deng Xiaoping de kua shiji geming Caixun chubanshe, Taipei, 1997. 285 pp.China’s Provincial Leaders, 1949–1985 University College Press, Cardiff, 1986. 297 pp.The China Challenge: Adjustment and Reform Royal Institute of International Affairs, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. 86 pp.
- *Translated into Chinese as Zhongguode tiaozhan: diaocheng yu gaige Zhongguo Huaqiao chubanshe, Beijing, 1990.Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou, 1955–65 Cambridge University Press, 1986, reprinted 2009.Beijing Street Voices: The Poetry and Politics of China’s Democracy Movement Marion Boyars, London, 1981. 210 pp.