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Marc Blecher |
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
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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. I am on research leave in 2008-2009 thanks to an Oberlin
College Research Status appointment.
Professional Work
Curriculum
Vitæ
Books
Current courses and syllabi
None; on leave 2008-09.
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: Marxist Analysis of
Politics and Society
Politics 215: Political Economy of Labor
Politics 239: Marxist Theory
Politics 312: Political Economy of
Labor in Asia
Politics 313: Seminar on The Transition
to Capitalism in China
Politics 314: Seminar: Labor in the
Global Economy
Politics 911/912: Class, Gender, Race
and Politics in the UK / Research
Workshop: Politics and Society in
Britain