^ Gosh, you must be a really stupid a**hole! Make sure you are talking about the right person by spelling the name correctly. Do you really know his work if you haven't learned his name?
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China Market 2011-12
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**** or not, the Gries hater is just wrong. Gries' record over the last several years doesn't put him in the company of, say, Shih, but it is reasonably respectable and certainly within the realm of "political science." Articles in JCC, CQ, and the Journal of Chinese--ahem--Political Science. (Not that the latter is particularly great--but it does try to be political science.)
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You folks sure love to trash others. How about we all go back to work on all those books and articles that are not getting written right now?
How about we discuss real rumors, for a change?
Maybe when cabbages eat kings...
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GSU will re-do its China search next year. Whom else did they interview besides Shih this year?
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GSU = Georgia State?
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Shih did not apply or interview for a job at GSU
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So where did you apply, Victor?
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Is the China field so thin that every decent job is rumored to have been offered to Shih?
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The field is thin - though maybe not as thin as it had been a decade or more ago. The other problem is that it is largely trifurcated into groups that many departments have a hard time hiring:
1) US-trained ABDs who are originally from China and have good quantitative training, but often are quite narrowly focused and sometimes do not interview very well.
2) ABDs and recent grads who look like broad comparativists, but really lack area studies chops/language skills or other credibility for doing research in China.
3) Recent grads and people a bit further along (relatively few ABDs in this category) who are more "old school" comparativists/China specialists, who are mostly qualitatively focused and sometimes have research agendas that are more "inter-disciplinary" than "mainstream political science".
Many departments have difficulty getting coalitions together to interview people in group 3. Many places interview, but fail to hire, people in group 1. Group 2 candidates are attractive to a lot of departments, but often have trouble getting tenure or otherwise establishing themselves in the Chinese politics field.
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May I ask which group do you fall into? 4)?
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econ troll go home.
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IR or CP position on China at U. of South Carolina.
The Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina (http://www.cas.sc.edu/poli/) invites applications for a tenure- track position in International Relations or Comparative Politics at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, to begin in August 2012. As one component of a group of positions authorized in a China cluster, we seek candidates with training in IR and/or CP, and whose research and teaching interests include China (individually, globally, or regionally within Asia), but can otherwise be open (e.g., international political economy, comparative political economy, conflict and/or cooperation within and/or between states, comparative institutions, foreign policy analysis, etc.). Among junior applicants, preference will be given to those having Ph.D. in hand, a well-conceived and established research agenda, and evidence of teaching effectiveness; among more senior scholars, preference will be given to those with particularly strong publication and teaching records.
Applicants should submit a letter describing their interests and credentials, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, accomplishments, three letters of recommendation and samples of published and unpublished research to:
IR/CP/China Search Committee
Department of Political Science
Gambrell Hall Room 350
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208For full consideration, all application materials must be received no later than *October 14, 2011.*
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Thanks, Tulsa. Are you in SC too? Anyway, don't they already have John Fuh-sheng Hsieh, a guy from Taiwan who claims to be studying China too?
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Outside the schools in this thread, which are not in the universe in which I live, how was the rest of the China/Asia market this year? SLACS? LACs? Directionals?
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