Marc Blecher
Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio 44074


Office: Rice Hall 224
Office phone: 440.775.8493
Department phone: 440.775.8487
Department fax: 440.775.8898
Home phone: 440.774.4702
Home fax: 425.930.0507
email: marc.blecher@oberlin.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 & Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30;
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Oberlin Online
Department of Politics

Enjoying café life in Biot, France with future colleague Solomon Nichols Blecher


I received my B.S. degree from Cornell University and my M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. My specialty is Chinese politics, on which I have published five books and dozens of articles on local politics, popular participation, and political economy. I teach about these subjects as well as Asian politics and political economy, Marxist theory, and comparative politics. My current research focuses on two projects: workers' politics in contemporary China, and the political economy of urban space in a small Chinese city.
This video profile concerns my teaching and its relationship to my scholarship. It also explains how I reconcile my politics with owning a nice sportscar.

Professional Work
   Curriculum Vitæ
  
Books

Recent appearances on Democracy Now!

Recent appearance on WKSU

Video of 2012 London Program visit to Tyneside

Drop box

My London flat (available for occasional rental)!

Current courses and syllabi

First Year Seminar 094: Das Kapital
Politics 313: Seminar on The Transition
   to Capitalism in China

Recent courses and syllabi

First Year Seminar 138: Class
Politics 110: Revolution, Socialism and
   Reform in China
Politics 212: Political Economy of Development in Asia
Politics 218: Marxian Analysis of Politics and Society
Politics 239: Marxian Theory
Politics 911/912: Class, Gender, Race
   and Politics in the UK / Research
   Workshop: Politics and Society in
   Britain