James Kai‐sing Kung

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

James Kai‐sing Kung is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, James Kai‐sing Kung has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 20 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in James Kai‐sing Kung's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (34 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (19 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (13 papers). James Kai‐sing Kung is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (34 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (19 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (13 papers). James Kai‐sing Kung collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. James Kai‐sing Kung's co-authors include Chicheng Ma, Shuo Chen, Ting Chen, Li Han, Ying Bai, Ting Chen, Shouying Liu, Justin Yifu Lin, Yongshun Cai and Ming‐Chien Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal and American Political Science Review.

In The Last Decade

James Kai‐sing Kung

69 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruptio... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2018 2015 2020 50 100 150 200 250

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Kai‐sing Kung Hong Kong 25 1.1k 887 844 665 438 71 2.9k
Jean‐Marie Baland Belgium 24 355 0.3× 1.5k 1.7× 1.1k 1.3× 668 1.0× 288 0.7× 56 3.9k
Lee J. Alston United States 25 407 0.4× 1.0k 1.1× 616 0.7× 585 0.9× 201 0.5× 84 2.8k
Ghazala Mansuri United States 19 517 0.5× 742 0.8× 964 1.1× 190 0.3× 167 0.4× 48 2.6k
John Harriss United Kingdom 26 887 0.8× 658 0.7× 1.8k 2.1× 369 0.6× 187 0.4× 102 3.3k
Paul Collier United Kingdom 34 760 0.7× 2.6k 2.9× 2.1k 2.5× 360 0.5× 567 1.3× 141 6.5k
Hernando de Soto United States 14 634 0.6× 1.8k 2.0× 1.3k 1.6× 1.1k 1.6× 185 0.4× 47 4.6k
Timothy Besley United Kingdom 15 417 0.4× 2.2k 2.4× 829 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 137 0.3× 27 4.0k
Robin Burgess United Kingdom 28 657 0.6× 2.8k 3.1× 1.2k 1.5× 343 0.5× 262 0.6× 69 4.7k
Mick Moore United Kingdom 30 923 0.8× 970 1.1× 1.5k 1.8× 155 0.2× 381 0.9× 118 3.9k
Jean‐Philippe Platteau Belgium 33 643 0.6× 1.5k 1.7× 1.7k 2.1× 1.9k 2.8× 530 1.2× 104 5.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kung, James Kai‐sing, et al.. (2020). Foreign Education, Ideology, and the Fall of Imperial China. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Ting & James Kai‐sing Kung. (2018). Busting the 'Princelings': The Campaign Against Corruption in China's Primary Land Market. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Han, Li & James Kai‐sing Kung. (2015). Fiscal Incentives and Policy Choices of Local Governments, Evidence from China. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing & Chicheng Ma. (2014). Can cultural norms reduce conflicts? Confucianism and peasant rebellions in Qing China. Journal of Development Economics. 111. 132–149. 149 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing, et al.. (2014). Land Revenue Windfalls, Signaling, and Career Incentives of China's Local Leaders. 4 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing & Ting Chen. (2013). Do Land Revenue Windfalls Reduce the Career Incentives of County Leaders? Evidence from China. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing, et al.. (2012). Land Reallocations, Passive Land Rental, and the Development of Rental Markets in Rural China. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Shuo & James Kai‐sing Kung. (2010). Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China's Great Leap Famine. SSRN Electronic Journal. 22 indexed citations
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Kuo, Yu‐Lin, et al.. (2010). Grey relational analysis of an automatic identifying system for clothing texture. Fibres and Textiles in Eastern Europe. 7 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (2008). The Political Economy of Land Reform in China's “Newly Liberated Areas”: Evidence from Wuxi County. The China Quarterly. 195. 675–690. 3 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing, et al.. (2007). The Decline of Township-and-Village Enterprises in China’s Economic Transition. World Development. 35(4). 569–584. 57 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing & Ming‐Chien Yang. (2006). Effect of conjugated linoleic acid immobilization on the hemocompatibility of cellulose acetate membrane. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 47(1). 36–42. 27 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (2002). Introduction: Transforming Rural China. Journal of Comparative Economics. 30(2). 325–328. 2 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (2002). Choice of Land Tenure in China: The Case of a County with Quasi‐Private Property Rights. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 50(4). 793–817. 43 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing, et al.. (2001). Determination of the elastic properties at high pressure without pressure scale. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 1 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (2001). Common Property Rights and Land Reallocations in Rural China: Evidence from a Village Survey. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (1994). Egalitarianism, subsistence provision, and work incentives in China's agricultural collectives. World Development. 22(2). 175–187. 33 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (1993). Organizational Response to Monitoring and Sharing Problems: The Choice of Remuneration System in Chinese Collective Agriculture. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 149(3). 579. 1 indexed citations
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Kung, James Kai‐sing. (1992). Food and Agriculture in Post-Reform China. Modern China. 18(2). 138–170. 2 indexed citations

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