Associate Professor Fengshi Wu
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Fengshi Wu

PhD in Political Science, University of Maryland, 2005

BA (first honor) in International Politics, Beijing University, 1999

Arts,Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Fengshi Wu is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She is a world leading scholar in environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on China and Asia. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-2009) and a Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2004). Her academic works have appeared in China Journal, Environmental Politics, VOLUNTAS, China Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Contemporary China and International Studies Quarterly. She edited the book China’s Global Conquest for Resources (Routledge, 2017) on Chinese overseas investment in and acquisition of natural resources.

Currently, A/Prof. Wu is the inaugural Series Editor of Environment and Society in Asia, Amsterdam University Press, and a member the Executive Committee and the Board of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR).

A/Prof. Wu received her PhD in political science from the University of Maryland and BA (Hons) in international relations from Beijing University. Prior to UNSW, she held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Location
Level 1 Morven Brown Bldg.
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, 'Environmental Movements in Asia: Divergent Relationship with Political Liberalization', in The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements, Routledge, This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements on 2022, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367428785, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Environmental-Movements/Grasso-Giugni/p/book/9780367428785
    Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, 'Relevance in a State of Flux: Civil Society and Environmental Protection in Kazakhstan', in Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia, pp. 113 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003256809-9
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, 'China: Climate Justice without a Social Movement?', in Bhavnani K-K; Foran J; Kurian PA; Munshi D (ed.), Climate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice, Zed Books, UK
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, 'Policy Case Study: The Environment', in William JA (ed.), Politics in China, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 383 - 398, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/politics-in-china-9780190870706?cc=au&lang=en&#
    Book Chapters | 2018
    2018, 'Climate change in the Arctic: Future Directions for Adaptation (Perspective from A Non-Arctic State)', in Corell R (ed.), The Arctic in World Affairs, Korea Maritime Institute; East-West Center, Busan; Hawii, pp. 199 - 209
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, 'China’s Global Quest for Resources: Notes for Policy Advocates', in Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, 'China’s Shared Water Resources: Geopolitics, Domestic Institutions and Global Governance', in China's Global Quest for Resources: Energy, Food and Water, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315672564
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, 'Introduction: A rising China and the future of world resources', in , http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315672564
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, 'National and other supra-local associations: Meso-associations', in The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations, pp. 836 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9_34
    Book Chapters | 2017
    2017, 'Social movements and activist-protest volunteering', in The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations, pp. 516 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9_25
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'China and shared water resources: Geopolitics, domestic institutions and global governance', in China’s Global Quest for Resources: Energy, Food and Water, pp. 59 - 78
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Conclusion: Findings and notes for policy advocates', in China's Global Quest for Resources: Energy, Food and Water, pp. 173 - 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315672564
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Environmental degradation', in Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development, Second Edition, pp. 105 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315689050
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Introduction: A rising China and the future of world resources', in China’s Global Quest for Resources: Energy, Food and Water, pp. 1 - 20
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'National and Other Supra-Local Associations: Meso-Associations', in The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 836 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9_34
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Social Movements and Activist-Protest Volunteering', in The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 516 - 538, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9_25
    Book Chapters | 2016
    2016, 'Transnational Associations and INGOs: Macro-Associations', in The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 874 - 893, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26317-9_34
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, 'Nongovernmental organizations and environmental protests: Impacts in East Asia', in Harris PG; Lang G (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia, ROUTLEDGE, pp. 105 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315774862-16
    Book Chapters | 2014
    2014, 'Social Mobilization, Collective Action, and Resistance against Environmental Pollution in 2012', in Liu J (ed.), CHINESE RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENVIRONMENT, VOL 3: PUBLIC ACTION AND GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY, BRILL, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004269385_003
    Book Chapters | 2013
    2013, 'Environmental politics in China: An issue area in review', in Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field, pp. 103 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29590-4_6
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, 'Environmental Politics in China: An Issue Area in Review', in Political Science and Chinese Political Studies, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 103 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29590-4_6
    Book Chapters | 2007
    2007, 'THE STATE AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTHEAST ASIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY', in Hyun IT; Schreurs MA (ed.), ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION OF ASIAN SECURITY: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION OVER ENERGY, RESOURCES, AND POLLUTION, US INST PEACE, pp. 207 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000293324400010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
  • Edited Books | 2016
    2016, China’s global quest for resources: Energy, food and water
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Beyond state politics in Asia's transboundary rivers: Revisiting two decades of critical hydropolitics', Geography Compass, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12685
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'From Online Mass Incidents to Defiant Enclaves: Political Dissent on China’s Internet', China Journal, 87, pp. 20 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/717610
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Contested environmentalism: the politics of waste in China and Russia', Environmental Politics, 30, pp. 493 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1816367
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'State and society in extreme times: China’s early response to covid-19 outbreak', China Review, 21, pp. 1 - 5
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Is there a U.S.–China–India triangle? – Beijing’s official views', India Review, 18, pp. 437 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2019.1662187
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Building Up Alliances and Breaking Down the State Monopoly: The Rise of Non-Governmental Disaster Relief in China', China Quarterly, 234, pp. 463 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741017001333
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Change and Resilience in Melanesian Societies', Global Environmental Politics, 18, pp. 151 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00460
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Chronic Non-compliance and Ineffective Enforcement in Guangzhou', China Policy Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.18278/cpj.1.1.6
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'An emerging group name ?gongyi?: Ideational collectivity in China?s civil society', China Review, 17, pp. 123 - 150
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance', Global Policy, 8, pp. 216 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12419
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Evolving state-society relations in China: Introduction', China Review, 17
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Having Peers and Becoming One: Collective Consciousness among Civil Society Actors in China', Journal of Contemporary China, 26, pp. 564 - 576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2017.1274820
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'China’s ascent in global governance and the Arctic', Vestnik of St Petersburg University, Series 6. Political science. International relations, Issue 2
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'In the Name of the Public: Environmental Protest and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China', The China Journal, 75, pp. 61 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684010
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'In the name of the public: Environmental protest and the changing landscape of popular contention in China', China Journal, 75, pp. 61 - 82
    Journal articles | 2015
    2015, 'Web 2.0 and Political Engagement in China', VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27, pp. 2055 - 2076, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9627-6
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Environmental Activism in Provincial China', Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 15, pp. 89 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2013.763634
    Journal articles | 2013
    2013, 'Sino-American environmental relations: The potential of trans-societal linkages', Issues and Studies, 49, pp. 73 - 110
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Graduated control and beyond: The evolving government-NGO relations', China Perspectives, 2012, pp. 9 - 18
    Journal articles | 2011
    2011, 'Strategic State Engagement in Transnational Activism: AIDS prevention in China', Journal of Contemporary China, 20, pp. 621 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2011.587162
    Journal articles | 2009
    2009, 'Environmental Politics in China: An Issue Area in Review', Journal of Chinese Political Science, 14, pp. 383 - 406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11366-009-9072-8
    Journal articles | 2006
    2006, 'Global regime formation or complex institution building? The principled content of international river agreements', International Studies Quarterly, 50, pp. 263 - 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2006.00402.x
    Journal articles | 2005
    2005, 'International non-governmental actors in HIV/AIDS prevention in China', Cell Research, 15, pp. 919 - 922, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.cr.7290369
    Journal articles | 2003
    2003, 'Environmental GONGO Autonomy: Unintended Consequences of State Strategies in China', The Good Society, 12, pp. 35 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gso.2003.0031
    Journal articles | 2002
    2002, 'Old Brothers or New Partners: GONGOs in Transnational Environmental Advocacy in China', China Environment Series
    Journal articles |
    'Environmental Movements in Asia', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3772525
    Journal articles |
    'The Rise of Non-Governmental Disaster Relief in China', SSRN Electronic Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2916221
  • Working Papers |
    China and Global Governance: Four Pathways to Cross a Threshold, Elsevier BV, http://dx.doi.org10.2139/ssrn.2798494, https://doi.org/10.2139%2Fssrn.2798494
  • Other | 2020
    2020, Titans of the Climate: Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China, by Kelly Sims Gallagher and Xiaowei Xuan. Forewords by John P. Holdren and Junkuo Zhang. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. vii+245 pp. $US28.00/£22.00 (paper)., , http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/706715
    Reports | 2018
    Other | 2010
    2010, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911810002330
    Other | 2008
    2008, Clearing the Air: the health and economic damages of air pollution in China- Edited by Mun S. Ho and Chris P. Nielsen, Wiley-Blackwell, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8411.2008.00213_14.x
    Reports |
    Capacity Development of Civil Society Organizations: Towards Inclusive Social Management in China, Elsevier BV, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2798510, https://doi.org/10.2139%2Fssrn.2798510
    Preprints |
    Relevance in a State of Flux: Civil Society and Environmental Protection in Kazakhstan, , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3802297
  • Media | 2018
    2018, On the Doorstep of the Belt and Road Initiative,
    Media | 2018
    2018, Society-Driven Disaster Response: New Model from China?,
    Media | 2017
    2017, China’s Effective Greens and Gaps in Climate Activism,
    Media | 2017
    2017, From Paris to Beijing: China, Next Champion on Climate Change?,
    Media | 2014
    2014, Protests in Hong Kong,